Variational Calculus - Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

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Auteur(s) : Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Editeur : Springer International Publishing Ag

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2022

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 296

Expédition : 612

Dimensions : 24.1 x 16.0 x 2.2

ISBN : 3031183061

Résumé :
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Calculus of Variations and its use in modelling mechanics and physics problems. Presenting a geometric approach to the subject, it progressively guides the reader through this very active branch of mathematics, accompanying key statements with a huge variety of exercises, some of them solved. Stressing the need to overcome limitations of the initial point of view, and emphasising the interconnectivity of various branches of mathematics (algebra, analysis and geometry), the book includes some advanced material to challenge the most motivated students. Systematic, short historical notes provide details on the subject?s odyssey, and how new tools have been developed over the last two centuries. This English translation updates a set of notes for a course first given at the ?cole polytechnique in 1987. It will be accessible to graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

Biographie:
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is the Nicolaas Kuiper Honorary Professor at the Institut des Hautes ?tudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, where he was director from 1994 to 2013. His research interests are in differential geometry, in particular its relations with partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He was president of the Soci?t? Math?matique de France (1990-1992) and of the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). He received the Paul Langevin prize from the Acad?mie des Sciences de Paris in 1987 and the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Prize from the Comit? du Rayonnement Fran?ais in 1997....

Sommaire:
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is the Nicolaas Kuiper Honorary Professor at the Institut des Hautes ?tudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, where he was director from 1994 to 2013. His research interests are in differential geometry, in particular its relations with partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He was president of the Soci?t? Math?matique de France (1990-1992) and of the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). He received the Paul Langevin prize from the Acad?mie des Sciences de Paris in 1987 and the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Prize from the Comit? du Rayonnement Fran?ais in 1997....