calculus of variation in a sentence

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1. Through the work of David Hilbert in the Calculus of Variations, the Dirichlet principle was finally established.
2. This De Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian form of field equations is action principle in the calculus of variations ).
3. To satisfy these requirements Canny used the calculus of variations  a technique which finds the Gaussian.
4. This surface is called a minimal surface and it, too, can be found using the calculus of variations.
5. Before the Second World War, Frank Ramsey and Harold Hotelling used the calculus of variations to that end.
6. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations ( in 1910, at the University of Vienna ).
7. The first was constructed in 1788 by Joseph Louis Lagrange, an action and follows the calculus of variations.
8. Its use originates in the calculus of variations, where one searches for a function that minimizes a given functional.
9. These paths are called geodesics, and one of the simplest problems in the calculus of variations is finding geodesics.
10. :: : Modern mathematicians use the calculus of variations to show that straight lines have the shortest path property.