A paper of Legendre revisited

DOI10.1515/FORM.1997.9.655MaRDI QIDQ4359737zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marino Belloni, Bernd Kawohl

Publication date 12 May 1998

Published in Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/141816

zbMATH Keywords

existence of solutionsexplicit computationsNewton's problem of minimal resistance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10)

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