The Variational Principles of Mechanics

The Variational Principles of MechanicsAnalytical mechanics is, of course, a topic of perennial interest and usefulness in physics and engineering, a discipline that boasts not only many practical applications, but much inherent mathematical beauty. Unlike many standard textbooks on advanced mechanics, however, this present text eschews a primarily technical and formalistic treatment in favor of a fundamental, historical, philosophical approach. As the author remarks, there is a tremendous

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general and special methods of integration

with extensive editorial apparatus and some 200 illustrations

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Reprint of The Citadel Press

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and this edition has been newly expanded to include a supplement on events in mathematics since the 1985 publication of the first Dover edition

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prepared by the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University