Introduction To The Calculus Of Variations

Author : Hansjörg Kielhöfer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319711237
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calculus of Variations written by Hansjörg Kielhöfer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear and concise textbook provides a rigorous introduction to the calculus of variations, depending on functions of one variable and their first derivatives. It is based on a translation of a German edition of the book Variationsrechnung (Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, 2010), translated and updated by the author himself. Topics include: the Euler-Lagrange equation for one-dimensional variational problems, with and without constraints, as well as an introduction to the direct methods. The book targets students who have a solid background in calculus and linear algebra, not necessarily in functional analysis. Some advanced mathematical tools, possibly not familiar to the reader, are given along with proofs in the appendix. Numerous figures, advanced problems and proofs, examples, and exercises with solutions accompany the book, making it suitable for self-study. The book will be particularly useful for beginning graduate students from the physical, engineering, and mathematical sciences with a rigorous theoretical background.

Author : Hans Sagan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048613802X
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Calculus of Variations written by Hans Sagan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a thorough understanding of calculus of variations and prepares readers for the study of modern optimal control theory. Selected variational problems and over 400 exercises. Bibliography. 1969 edition.

Author : John A. Burns
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466571403
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control with Modern Applications written by John A. Burns and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the Calculus of Variations and Control with Modern Applications provides the fundamental background required to develop rigorous necessary conditions that are the starting points for theoretical and numerical approaches to modern variational calculus and control problems. The book also presents some classical sufficient conditions a

Author : Bruce van Brunt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387216979
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calculus of Variations written by Bruce van Brunt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of mathematics, physics, or engineering, this introduction to the calculus of variations focuses on variational problems involving one independent variable. It also discusses more advanced topics such as the inverse problem, eigenvalue problems, and Noether’s theorem. The text includes numerous examples along with problems to help students consolidate the material.

Author : Frederic Wan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351436511
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction To The Calculus of Variations And Its Applications written by Frederic Wan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text provides all information necessary for an introductory course on the calculus of variations and optimal control theory. Following a thorough discussion of the basic problem, including sufficient conditions for optimality, the theory and techniques are extended to problems with a free end point, a free boundary, auxiliary and inequality constraints, leading to a study of optimal control theory.

Author : Bernard Dacorogna
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 178326554X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Calculus of Variations written by Bernard Dacorogna and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-08-13 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calculus of variations is one of the oldest subjects in mathematics, and it is very much alive and still evolving. Besides its mathematical importance and its links to other branches of mathematics, such as geometry or differential equations, it is widely used in physics, engineering, economics and biology. This book serves both as a guide to the expansive existing literature and as an aid to the non-specialist — mathematicians, physicists, engineers, students or researchers — in discovering the subject's most important problems, results and techniques. Despite the aim of addressing non-specialists, mathematical rigor has not been sacrificed; most of the theorems are either fully proved or proved under more stringent conditions. In this new edition, several new exercises have been added. The book, containing a total of 119 exercises with detailed solutions, is well designed for a course at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Author : L.A. Pars
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486165957
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Calculus of Variations written by L.A. Pars and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, rigorous introductory treatment covers applications to geometry, dynamics, and physics. It focuses upon problems with one independent variable, connecting abstract theory with its use in concrete problems. 1962 edition.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Calculus of Variations written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Kot
Publisher : American Mathematical Society
ISBN 13 : 1470414953
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A First Course in the Calculus of Variations written by Mark Kot and published by American Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for a first course in the calculus of variations, at the senior or beginning graduate level. The reader will learn methods for finding functions that maximize or minimize integrals. The text lays out important necessary and sufficient conditions for extrema in historical order, and it illustrates these conditions with numerous worked-out examples from mechanics, optics, geometry, and other fields. The exposition starts with simple integrals containing a single independent variable, a single dependent variable, and a single derivative, subject to weak variations, but steadily moves on to more advanced topics, including multivariate problems, constrained extrema, homogeneous problems, problems with variable endpoints, broken extremals, strong variations, and sufficiency conditions. Numerous line drawings clarify the mathematics. Each chapter ends with recommended readings that introduce the student to the relevant scientific literature and with exercises that consolidate understanding.

Author : I. M. Gelfand
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486135012
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calculus of Variations written by I. M. Gelfand and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh, lively text serves as a modern introduction to the subject, with applications to the mechanics of systems with a finite number of degrees of freedom. Ideal for math and physics students.