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The calculus of variations is an old mathematical discipline and historically finds its origins in the introduction of the brachistochrone problem at the end of the 17th century by Johann Bernoulli to challenge his contemporaries to solve it. Here, we briefly introduce the reader to the main results.
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Bonnard, B., Chyba, M., Rouot, J. (2018). Historical Part—Calculus of Variations. In: Geometric and Numerical Optimal Control. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94791-4_1
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