The Origins of Mechanical Conservation Principles and Variational Calculus in the 17th Century

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_1MaRDI QIDQ5261820zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. Stein

Publication date 8 July 2015

Published in The History of Theoretical, Material and Computational Mechanics - Mathematics Meets Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39905-3_1

zbMATH Keywords

brachistochrone problemcatenary curvecycloidtautochrone problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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