New insight into optimization and variational problems in the 17th century

DOI10.1108/02644400310488826MaRDI QIDQ4467641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Stein, K. Wiechmann

Publication date 10 June 2004

Published in Engineering Computations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1108/02644400310488826

zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodnonlinear analysisvariational calculusFermat's principlebrachistochrone problemseventeenth century

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) History of calculus of variations and optimal control (49-03)

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