Early Period of the Calculus of Variations
$381.15
- Hardcover
293 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2016
Summary
This monograph explores the early development of the calculus of variations in continental Europe during the Eighteenth Century by illustrating the mathematics of its founders. Closely following the original papers and correspondences of Euler, Lagrange, the Bernoullis, and others, the reader is immersed in the challenge of theory building. We see what the founders were doing, the difficulties they faced, the mistakes they made, and their triumphs. The authors guide the reader through these w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783319389448 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3319389440 |
| Author: | Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta |
| Publisher: | Birkhauser Verlag Ag |
| Imprint: | Birkhauser Verlag AG |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 293 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 25 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 616g |
| Dimensions: | 242mm x 162mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“The book presents an accurate description of the ideas and methods developed to face the first variational problems, essentially from the Brachistochrone in the seventeenth century to the very first years of the nineteenth century, covering overall a little more than a century. … The book is the result of the fruitful cooperation between a specialist in the history of sciences and a well-known researcher in the Calculus of Variations … .” (Arrigo Cellina, Mathematical Reviews, May, 2017)
“The authors succeeded in adding a very valuable book to the literature available on the history of the calculus of variations. The book is full of the mathematics of the masters and the authors have taken pain to clarify even the details in nowadays mathematical notations.” (Thomas Sonar, zbMATH 1350.01001, 2017)
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