TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gelfand, I.M.
AU  - Fomin, S.V.
TI  - Calculus of Variations 
SN  - 9780486414485
U1  - 515.64 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Mineola, N.Y. : 
PB  - Dover Publications, 
KW  - Calculus of variations
N1  - Bibliography & Index
N2  - 	
Based 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 conservation laws
ER  -