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- Provides a philosophical interpretation of the development of physics
- Contains many worked examples
- Shows the path of the action principle - from Euler's first contributions to present topics
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Walter Dittrich
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Development of the Action Principle
Book Subtitle: A Didactic History from Euler-Lagrange to Schwinger
Authors: Walter Dittrich
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69105-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69104-2Published: 30 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69105-9Published: 29 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2191-5423
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5431
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 135
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical Mechanics, Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Mathematical Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory