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Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736 - 1813) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. Joseph Louis Lagrange , the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century, was born at Turin on January 25, 1736, and died at Paris on April 10, 1813. His father, who had charge of the Sardinian military chest, was of good social position and wealthy, but before his son grew up he had lost most of his property in speculations, and young Lagrange had to rely for his position on his own abilities. He was educated at the college of Turin, but it was not until he was seventeen that he shewed any taste for mathematics - his interest in the subject being first excited by a memoir by Halley across which he came by accident. Alone and unaided he threw himself into mathematical studies; at the end of a year's incessant toil he was already an accomplished mathematician, and was made a lecturer in the artillery school. The first fruit of Lagrange's labours here was his letter, written when he was still only nineteen, to Euler, in which he solved the isoperimetrical problem which for more than half a century had been a subject of discussion. To effect the solution (in which he sought to determine the form of a function so that a formula in which it entered should satisfy a certain condition) he enunciated the principles of the calculus of variations. Euler recognized the generality of the method adopted, and its superiority to that used by himself; and with rare courtesy he withheld a paper he had previously written, which covered some of the same ground, in order that the young Italian might have time to complete his work, and claim the undisputed invention of the new calculus. The name of this branch of analysis was suggested by Euler. This memoir at once placed Lagrange in the front rank of mathematicians then living.

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Department of Mathematics Search: Mathematics University Advanced Search University A to Z Departments ... Log in You are here: University Mathematics Maths Home Undergraduate Admissions ... Contact us Calculus of Variations Course category: Masters Module code: Year: Term: Autumn Credits: Lecturer: Professor Arnold Arthurs Aims Calculus of variations is a major branch of optimization, dealing with extreme values in certain function spaces. Related parts of mathematics, including differential geometry and differential equations, as well as applied fields, have played a significant role in the development of the subject. Specific cases include the problem of geodesics in geometry, and the principles of Fermat in optics, Hamilton in dynamics, and Pontrjagin in optimal control, all of which are encompassed and unified by the theory. The aims of this module are to present the basic elements of the subject. The approach is oriented towards the differential equation aspects, covering the work of Euler, Lagrange, Hamilton and Jacobi, isoperimetric problems, dual principles, direct methods, and eigenvalue problems. This module is designed for students who are interested in advanced calculus and its applications. Learning objectives At the end of the module you should be able to: analyse and solve the fundamental problem with prescribed or free boundary conditions in simple cases;

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Progress in Partial Differential Equations Edinburgh, 9-13 July 2001 Home page Scientific Programme Speakers' Notes Timetable ... Click here for the report on this meeting in ICMS News 11 The Speakers' Notes section contains notes and some abstracts from speakers at this meeting. Scientific Committee: J. M. Ball (Oxford), A. Grigoryan (Imperial College), S Kuksin (Heriot-Watt) The main purpose of the meeting is to bring together leading experts in this broad and fast-moving area with the objective of highlighting recent important developments. Particular attention will be paid to developments in PDEs that relate to the sciences and other areas of mathematics such as geometry, the calculus of variations, dynamical systems and stochastic analysis. One of the sessions of the meeting, on Tuesday 10 July, will be dedicated to the memory of E. M. Landis and will address qualitative theory of second order elliptic and parabolic PDEs. A memoir of E. M. Landis Session timetable The Workshop is supported by: The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and The European Commission under Framework V REGISTRATIONS CLOSED ON 7 APRIL 2001.

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Wiki: Calculus of variations Calculus of variations is a field of mathematics that deals with extremizing functionals , as opposed to ordinary calculus which deals with functions . A functional is usually a mapping from a set of functions to the real numbers. Functionals are often formed as definite integrals involving unknown functions and their derivatives. The interest is in extremal functions that make the functional attain a maximum or minimum value - or stationary functions - those where the rate of change of the functional is precisely zero. Perhaps the simplest example of such a problem is to find the curve of shortest length, or geodesic , connecting two points. If there are no constraints, the solution is obviously a straight line between the points. However, if the curve is constrained to lie on a surface in space, then the solution is less obvious, and possibly many solutions may exist. Such solutions are known as geodesics . A related problem is posed by : light follows the path of shortest optical length connecting two points, where the optical length depends upon the material of the medium. One corresponding concept in mechanics is the principle of least action Many important problems involve functions of several variables. Solutions of boundary value problems for the

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Calculus of Variations see also Calculus of Variations Minimal Surfaces Arfken, George. Ch. 17 in Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 3rd ed. Orlando, Florida: Academic Press, 1985. Now out in 4th ed. Bliss, Gilbert Ames. Calculus of Variations. Chicago, IL: Published for the Math. Assoc. Amer. by the Open Court, 1925. Considered by some a classic, but its rambling style makes it difficult to read. Emphasis is on abstract mathematics (fields), not applications. Out of print. $?. Bliss, Gilbert Ames. Lectures on the Calculus of Variations. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1961. $76. Bolza, Oskar. Lectures on the Calculus of Variations. New York: Dover, 1961. 271 p. $14.95. Caratheodory, Constantin. Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations of the First Order, 2 vols, 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Holden-Day, 1982. $29.50. Courant, Richard. Calculus of Variations (Lecture Notes). New York: New York University, 1946. Dense and mimeographed. Ewing, George McNaught. Calculus of Variations with Applications.

70. Calculus Of Variations | Mathematical Institute - University Of Oxford The basic variational problem and Euler's equation. Examples, including axisymmetric soap films. Extension to several dependent variables. Hamilton's principle for free particles http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/9576

Calculus of Variations Calculus of Variations Calculus of Variations HT View course material Number of lectures: 8 HT Syllabus The basic variational problem and Euler's equation. Examples, including axisymmetric soap films. Extension to several dependent variables. Hamilton's principle for free particles and particles subject to holonomic constraints. Equivalence with Newton's second law. Geodesics on surfaces. Extension to several independent variables. Examples including Laplace's equation. Lagrange multipliers and variations subject to constraint. The Rayleigh-Ritz method and eigenvalue problems for Sturm-Liouville equations. Course Description Weeks 1 to 4 in Hilary Term Overview The calculus of variations concerns problems in which one wishes to find the minima or extrema of some quantity over a system that has functional degrees of freedom. Many important problems arise in this way across pure and applied mathematics and physics. They range from the problem in geometry of finding the shape of a soap bubble, a surface that minimizes its surface area, to finding the configuration of a piece of elastic that minimises its energy. Perhaps most importantly, the principle of least action is now the standard way to formulate the laws of mechanics and basic physics. In this course it is shown that such variational problems give rise to a system of differential equations, the Euler-Lagrange equations. Furthermore, the minimizing principle that underlies these equations leads to direct methods for analysing the solutions to these equations. These methods have far reaching applications and will help develop students technique.

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Chapter 8 CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS Introduction Euler Equation Functions, Functionals and Neighborhoods More Complex Problems ... Problems Constrained Variational Problems top Generally, there are two procedures used for solving variational problems that have constraints. These are the methods of direct substitution and Lagrange multipliers. In the method of direct substitution, the constraint equation is substituted into the integrand; and the problem is converted into an unconstrained problem as was done in Chapter II. In the method of Lagrange multipliers, the Lagrangian function is formed; and the unconstrained problem is solved using the appropriate forms of the Euler or Euler-Poisson equation. However, in some cases the Lagrange multiplier is a function of the independent variables and is not a constant. This is an added complication that was not encountered in Chapter II. Algebraic Constraints top To illustrate the method of Lagrange multipliers, the simplest case with one algebraic equation will be used. The extension to more complicated cases are the same as that for analytical methods:

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