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calculus of variations  Applications of the calculus of variations  calculus of variation  Minimum principle  strong extrema
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The calculus of variations is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set of functions to the real numbers. Wikipedia
A field of study that deals with extremizing functionals Wikipedia Disambiguation
Differential calculus on function spaces Wikidata
The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of functions of many variables. Wiktionary
A form of calculus. Wiktionary (translation)