A history of the progress of the calculus of variations during the nineteenth century

Isaac Todhunter9781402167478, 1402167474

This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1861 edition by Macmillan and Co., Cambridge.

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Table of contents :
A HISTORY OF THE PROGRESS OF THE CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ……Page 1
PREFACE ……Page 3
CONTENTS ……Page 9
CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS. CHAPTER 1. LAGRANGE, LACROIX. ……Page 11
CHAPTER II. DIKKSEK OHM. ……Page 38
CHAPTER III. GAUSS ……Page 47
CHAPTER IV. POISSON ……Page 63
CHAPTER V. OSTROGKADSKY ……Page 121
CHAPTER VI. DELAUNAY ……Page 150
CHAPTER VII. SARRUS ……Page 192
CHAPTER VIII. CAUCHY ……Page 220
CHAPTER IX. LEGENDRE, BRUNACCI, JACOBL ……Page 239
CHAPTER X. COMMENTATORS ON JACOBL ……Page 264
CHAPTER XI. ON JACOBFS MEMOIR ……Page 321
CHAPTER XII. MISCELLANEOUS MEMOIRS ……Page 343
CHAPTER XIII. SYSTEMATIC TREATISES ……Page 383
CHAPTER XIV. MINOR TREATISES ……Page 446
CHAPTER XV. MISCELLANEOUS AKTICLES ……Page 480
CHAPTER XVI. ……Page 494
CHAPTER XVII. CONDITIONS OF INTEGKABIL1TY ……Page 515