Calculus of Variations Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (2014) As their stories interweave

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Calculus of Variations Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (2014) As their stories interweaveBased 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