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This book is divided into two parts. The first addresses the simpler variational problems in parametric and nonparametric form. The second covers extensions to optimal control theory. The author opens with the study of three classical problems whose solutions led to the theory of calculus of variations. They are the problem of geodesics, the brachistochrone, and the minimal surface of revolution. He gives a detailed discussion of the Hamilton-Jacobi...
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- PublisherAmerican Mathematical Society
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0821826905
- ISBN 13 9780821826904
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages337
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Lectures on the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory
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