First six chapters include theory of fields and sufficient conditions for weak and strong extrema. Chapter seven considers application of variation methods to systems with infinite degrees of freedom, and Chapter eight deals with direct methods in the calculus of variations. Problems follow each chap... read more
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First six chapters include theory of fields and sufficient conditions for weak and strong extrema. Chapter seven considers application of variation methods to systems with infinite degrees of freedom, and Chapter eight deals with direct methods in the calculus of variations. Problems follow each chapter and the 2 appendices.
Reprint of the Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1963 edition.
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