Calculus of Variations statistician

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In the influential essays included in this volume

Calculus of Variations statisticianBased 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