Lectures on the Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control Theory

Young, L. C.

ISBN 10: 0821826905 / ISBN 13: 9780821826904

Published by W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 1969

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First Printing in white-stamped full brown cloth boards, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, binding tight pages bright, minor shelf rub & slight rounding to ends & corners, else Fine copy from the collection of UCLA mathematician Nathaniel Grossman with his neat name to endpaper & his small namestamp to top & bottom page blocks (no dj, as issued); 8vo; (xi) 331pp indexed. Seller Inventory # 32530

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Title: Lectures on the Calculus of Variations and ...

Publisher: W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

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 theory,...

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