CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS Spiritual Growth and Rice Noodles and Dumplings

and Rice Noodles and Dumplings intersperse recipes with boxes that highlight Japanese traditions and recollections on the author’s time living in Tokyo

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CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS Spiritual Growth and Rice Noodles and DumplingsBased on a series of lectures given by I. M. Gelfand at Moscow State University, this book actually goes considerably beyond the material presented in the lectures. The aim is to give a treatment of the elements of the calculus of variations in a form both easily understandable and sufficiently modern. Considerable attention is devoted to physical applications of variational methods, e. g., canonical equations, variational principles of mechanics, and