Table of Contents: “...1. Rays of Light -- 1.1 Waves, Rays, and Orbits -- 1.2 Phase Velocity and Group Velocity -- 1.3 Dynamics of a Wave Packet -- 1.4 Fermat’s Principle of Least Time -- 1.5 Interlude on the Calculus of Variations -- 1.6 Optics in a Gravitational Field -- 2...”

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Subject (ZB): “...Calculus of variations....”

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Table of Contents: “...: Similarity Transformations and Canonical Forms -- 4 Variational Methods -- 4.1. Principle of Least Time -- 4.2. One-Dimensional Calculus of Variations, Euler’s Equation -- 4.3. Generalization to Functionals with More Than One Dependent Variable -- 4.4. Special...”

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Table of Contents: “...Dynamics and minimizing sequences -- Discontinuous solutions of bounded variations to problems of the calculus of variations and of quasi linear hyperbolic differential equations. Integrals of Serrin and Weierstrass. -- Minimizing sequences for nonconvex...”

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Subject (ZB): “...Calculus of variations....”

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Table of Contents: “... operators -- 10 The stability investigation via the Energy Principle -- 11 Preliminaries from the calculus of variations -- 12 The eigenvalue problem for a system of two first-order ordinary differential equations on a finite segment -- 3. Basic equations...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- 3.1 Calculus of variations -- 3.2 Pontryagin’s maximum principle -- 3.3 Sensitivity analysis -- 3.4. Parametric optimization, mathematical programming -- 4. Elastic and inelastic columns -- 4.1 Stability of non-prismatic columns -- 4.2 Unified approach...”

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Table of Contents: “.... Computer-Aided Optimization and Synthesis of Electron and Ion Lenses -- 9-1. Is Aberrationless Electron/Ion Optics Possible? -- 9-2. Optimization: Synthesis versus Analysis -- 9-3. Early Attempts of Synthesis -- 9-4. Calculus of Variations -- 9-5. Dynamic...”

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Table of Contents: “... Hamiltonian Systems -- A Remark on A Priori Bounds and Existence for Periodic Solutions of Hamiltonian Systems -- On a Class of Nonlinear Problems with Lack of Compactness -- An Old-Fashioned Method in the Calculus of Variations -- Optimization and Periodic...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- Dirichlet forms defined by Riemannian flags and applications -- A rigorous analysis of Anderson localization -- A finite approximation to boson Fock space -- An extension of Kotani's theorem to random generalized Sturm-Liouville operators II -- Path-wise calculus...”

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