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Author(s): Herman H. Goldstine
Title: A history of the calculus of variations from the 17th through the 19th century
Additional book information: Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol. 5, Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg-Berlin, 1980, xi + 410 pp., $48.00

References:

1.: L. D. Berkovitz, Optimal control theory, Amer. Math. Monthly 83 (1976), 225-239. MR 420365
2.: J. Dieudonné (éd. ), Abrégé d'histoire des mathématiques, 1700-1900, 2 vol., Hermann, Paris, 1978.
3.: I. Todhunter, A history of the calculus of variations during the nineteenth century, 1861, Chelsea, New York; reprint, undated.
4.: R. Wodehouse, A history of the calculus of variations in the eighteenth century, 1810, Chelsea, New York; reprint, undated.

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Reviewer(s):
Harry Pollard

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 6 (1982), 120-122.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-14988-6
PII: S 0273-0979(1982)14988-6


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