Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

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Author: 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.

Leonard D. Berkovitz, Optimal control theory, Amer. Math. Monthly 83 (1976), no. 4, 225–239. MR 420365, DOI 10.2307/2318209

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J. Dieudonné (éd. ), Abrégé d'histoire des mathématiques, 1700-1900, 2 vol., Hermann, Paris, 1978.

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I. Todhunter, A history of the calculus of variations during the nineteenth century, 1861, Chelsea, New York; reprint, undated.

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R. Wodehouse, A history of the calculus of variations in the eighteenth century, 1810, Chelsea, New York; reprint, undated.

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L. D. Berkovitz, Optimal control theory, Amer. Math. Monthly 83 (1976), 225-239. MR 0420365

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.