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Calculus of Variations

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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Irene FonsecaIrene Fonseca, Giovanni LeoniGiovanni Leoni

The calculus of variations is a branch of mathematical analysis that studies extrema and critical points of functionals (or energies). Here, by functional we mean a mapping from a function space to the real numbers

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