| Calculus of Variations Revised Edition Contributor(s): Weinstock, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486630692 ISBN-13: 9780486630694 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1974 Annotation: This text is basically divided into two parts. Chapters 1-4 include background material, basic theorems and isoperimetric problems. Chapters 5-12 are devoted to applications, geometrical optics, particle dynamics, the theory of elasticity, electrostatics, quantum mechanics and other topics. Exercises in each chapter. 1952 edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Calculus |
| Dewey: 515.64 |
| LCCN: 74075706 |
| Series: Dover Books on Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.42" W x 8.49" (0.82 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book by Robert Weinstock was written to fill the need for a basic introduction to the calculus of variations. Simply and easily written, with an emphasis on the applications of this calculus, it has long been a standard reference of physicists, engineers, and applied mathematicians. The author begins slowly, introducing the reader to the calculus of variations, and supplying lists of essential formulae and derivations. Later chapters cover isoperimetric problems, geometrical optics, Fermat's principle, dynamics of particles, the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue-eigenfunction problem, the theory of elasticity, quantum mechanics, and electrostatics. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises which should prove very useful in determining whether the material in that chapter has been thoroughly grasped. The clarity of exposition makes this book easily accessible to anyone who has mastered first-year calculus with some exposure to ordinary differential equations. Physicists and engineers who find variational methods evasive at times will find this book particularly helpful. "I regard this as a very useful book which I shall refer to frequently in the future." J. L. Synge, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. |