Calculus of variations establishes a framework to determine the extrema of functionals—mappings from functions to real numbers—which has been pivotal in elucidating natural principles such as the ...
The so-called Ritz–Galerkin method is one of the most fundamental tools of modern computing. Its origins lie in Hilbert's "direct" approach to the variational calculus of Euler–Lagrange and in the ...
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