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Prehistory of variational principles -- An excursio to Newton's Principia -- The optical-mechanical analogy, Part I: D'Alembert, Lagrange, and the statics-dynamics analogy -- The optical mechanical analogy, Part II: the Hamilton-Jacobi equation -- Relativity and least action -- The road to quantum mechanics.
Alberto Rojo (Oakland University, Michigan), Anthony Bloch (University of Michigan).
Includes bibliographical references and index.