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Dover Publications Inc. A History Of The Progress Of The Calculus Of Variations During The Nineteenth Century 2005 Edition by Isaac Todhunter
Accurate and complete, this classic volume surveys a century of progress in the calculus of variations. Surveys encompass the works of Lagrange, Lacroix, Dirksen, Ohm, Gauss, Poisson, Delaunay, Cauchy, and many other significant mathematicians and conclude with a brief history of the theory of the conditions of integrability. 1861 edition.