Book:Mark Kot/A First Course in the Calculus of Variations

Subject Matter

 * Calculus of Variations

Contents
Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The First Variation

Chapter 3. Cases and Examples

Chapter 4. Basic Generalizations

Chapter 5. Constraints

Chapter 6. The Second Variation

Chapter 7. Review and Preview

Chapter 8. The Homogenous Problem

Chapter 9. Variable-Endpoint Conditions

Chapter 10. Broken Extremals

Chapter 11. Strong Variations

Chapter 12. Sufficient Conditions

Bibliography

Index