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The calculus of variations deals with infinite dimensional optimization problems. Seventeenth century mathematicians and physicists such as Newton, Galileo, Huygens, John and James Bernoulli, L’Hôpital, and Leibniz posed and solved many variational problems. In the eighteenth century Euler made more definitive strides that were clarified and extended by Lagrange.
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Lange, K. (2013). The Calculus of Variations. In: Optimization. Springer Texts in Statistics, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5838-8_17
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