A History of the Calculus of Variations in the Eighteenth Century

A History of the Calculus of Variations in the Eighteenth Century
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Publisher : American Mathematical Society
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9780821836477
ISBN-13 : 0821836471
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Download or read book A History of the Calculus of Variations in the Eighteenth Century written by Robert Woodhouse and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the invention of differential and integral calculus, the calculus of variations was developed. The new calculus looks for functions that minimize or maximize some quantity, such as the brachistochrone problem, which was solved by Johann Bernoulli, Leibniz, Newton, Jacob Bernoulli and l'Hopital and is sometimes considered as the starting point of the calculus of variations. In Woodhouse's book, first published in 1810, he has interwoven the historical progress with the scientific development of the subject. The reader will have the opportunity to see how calculus, during its first one hundred years, developed by seemingly tiny increments to become the highly polished subject that we know today. Here, Woodhouse's interweaving of history and science gives his special point of view on the mathematics. As he states in his preface: ""Indeed the authors who write near the beginnings of science are, in general, the most instructive; they take the reader more along with them, show him the real difficulties and, which is the main point, teach him the subject, the way they themselves learned it.


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