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calculus of variations

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  1. The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of…

    The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of functions of many variables.

    • The next advance was made by Cauchy in a memoir on the calculus of variations published in the third volume of his Exercices d'analyse et de Physique Mathématique, 1844, extending from page 50 to page 130.
    • On the other hand, we can also consider that the calculus of variations includes all optimization problems where the unknown are functions[…].

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