Links on Calculus of Variations

• Short description of calculus of variations

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• Brachistochrone Problem
  Description and solution of the classic brachistochrone problem and also the brachistochrone with friction.
  • Mirror at this server.
  • Russian translation.

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• Leonhard Euler
  Biography

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• Constructing the Brachistochrone
  JAVA-applet, it creates the brachistochrone for given endpoint.

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• The Bernoullis
  Biography of Bernoullis

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• Brachistochrone with Coulomb Friction
  This is an abstract from SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

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