Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54822 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent introductory text
For many years I had terrible problems having no proper text of Calculus of Variations with examples of its applications to Geometry and Theoretical Physics. Finally, I found and recommended to the students the old edition of this very book. It worked very well: a slim book, written with characteristic clarity the authors are famous for, which brought numerous useful examples of applications and very well working problems and exercises. Now this book is awailable as a cheap Dover edition. I can recommend it to physicists and mathematicians, students and teachers. This is a classic text. It is a great joy to read it, and it helps to study and to teach.

A great book to get you over that hurdle!
I found this to be a book different from most usual texts that don't talk about applications as much as they should. It was a great treat to see the perfect blend of rigorous theory and intuitive explanation using examples. A great book to get you started...

Excellent but tough
This is arguably the finest peice of work on the subject but a word of caution is required. This is a concise and difficult work on the subject and really should only be considered by postgraduates. I don't think it's fair to consider it as an introduction to this very powerful and underused subject.