Calculus of Variations Cocktails 'Poignant and lovely

'Poignant and lovely

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the author has worked with hundreds of teachers and students to update and refine the lessons she presents

Calculus of Variations Cocktails 'Poignant and lovelyBased on a series of lectures given by I. M. Gelfand at Moscow State University, this book actually goes considerably beyond the material presented in the lectures. The aim is to give treatment of the elements of the calculus of variations in a form both easily understandable and sufficiently modern. Considerable attention is devoted to physical applications of variational methods, e. g., canonical equations, variational principles of mechanics, and