Calculus of variations
- Mineola : Dover Publications, 2020
- vii, 232 p. ; ill., 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
First 6 chapters include theory of fields and sufficient conditions for weak and strong extrema. Chapter 7 considers application of variation methods to systems with infinite degrees of freedom, and Chapter 8 deals with direct methods in the calculus of variations. Problems follow each chapter and the 2 appendices.