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Author: Marston Morse
Title: Global variational analysis: Weierstrass integrals on a Riemannian manifold
Additional book information: Mathematical Notes, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1976, ix + 255 pp., $6.50.

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G. D. Birkhoff, Collected mathematical papers, Vols. I, II, III, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1950.

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W. Klingenberg, Lectures on closed geodesics, 2nd rev. ed., Univ. of Bonn, 1976. MR 0461361

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J. W. Milnor, Morse theory, Ann. of Math. Studies, no. 51, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J., 1963. MR 29 #634. MR 163331

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M. Morse, The calculus of variations in the large, Amer. Math. Soc. Colloq. Publ., vol. 18, Amer. Math. Soc. Providence, R.I., 1934. MR 1451874

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M. Morse, George David Birkhoff and his mathematical work, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 52 (1946), 357-391; reprinted in Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. I, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, R.I., 1950, pp. xxiii-lvii. MR 16341

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H. Poincaré, Sur les courbes définies par les équation differentielles, part 3, Liouville J. (4) 1 (1885), 167-244.

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H. Seifert and W. Threlfall, Variationsrechnung im Grossen (Morsesche Theorie), Teubner, Leipzig, 1938.