Lagrange’s $$\delta $$ δ –Calculus

Paolo Freguglia () and Mariano Giaquinta
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Paolo Freguglia: Università di L’Aquila, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics
Mariano Giaquinta: Scuola Normale Superiore

Chapter Chapter 7 in The Early Period of the Calculus of Variations, 2016, pp 193-278 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract On 12 August 1753, the nineteen-year-old Joseph Louis Lagrange wrote a brief letter to Euler to which he attached an appendix containing a new purely analytic method to deal with maxima and minima of integral formulas.

Keywords: Original Passage; Miscellanea Taurinensia; Methodus Inveniendi; Lagrange Says; Isoperimetric Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-38945-5_7

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