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Trust me, calculus of variations is still used! It’s even more important now that we have lots of computing power. Actually, the major way we solve differenti
by bodhiandphysics 5y ago
Trust me, calculus of variations is still used! It’s even more important now that we have lots of computing power. Actually, the major way we solve differential equations, the finite element method, is a variational technique!
- ur-whale 5y ago> the finite element method, is a variational technique! Many calculus of variation (searching for extrema in function space) can be converted to a differential equation via Euler-Lagrange.
- bodhiandphysics 5y agoAnd cleverly vice versa. Many differential equations can be covered to problems in viv. Computers are great at optimization!