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

DOI10.1108/02644400310488826zbMATH Open1040.49002OpenAlexW2001282102MaRDI QIDQ4467641FDOQ4467641

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

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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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