The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control: An Introduction

by George Leitmann

When the Tyrian princess Dido landed on the North African shore of the Mediterranean sea she was welcomed by a local chieftain. He offered her all the land that she could enclose between the shoreline and a rope of knotted cowhide. While the legend does not tell us, we may assume that Princess Dido arrived at the correct solution by stretching the rope into the shape of a circular arc and thereby maximized the area of the land upon which she was to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489903356
• ISBN13: 9781489903358
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"