This comprehensive introduction to the calculus of variations and its main principles also presents their real-life applications in various contexts: …
These are notes for a mathematics graduate course on classical mechanics. I've taught this course twice recently. The rst time …
This book is a new edition of the authors previous book entitled Direct Methods in the Calculus of Variations, 1989. …
Computational Electromagnetism refers to the modern concept of computer-aided analysis, and design, of virtually all electric devices such as motors, …
Variational analysis is a fruitful area in mathematics that, on the one hand, deals with the study of optimization and …
We survey recent advances in analysis and geometry, where first order differential analysis has been extended beyond its classical smooth …
-------------------Description-------------------- The mathematical analysis of contact problems, with or without friction, is an area where progress depends heavily on the …
Historical, theoretical survey with many insights, much hard-to-find material. Hamilton's principle, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, etc.A historical and theoretical survey of variational …
This book provides researchers and graduate students with a thorough introduction to the variational analysis of nonlinear problems described by …
