Johann Radon
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Johann Karl August Radon was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations.
Radon in c. 1920
Calculus of variations
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The calculus of variations is a field of mathematical analysis that uses variations, which are small changes in functions and functionals, to find maxima and minima of functionals: mappings from a set
Johann Radon
…Johann Karl August Radon (; 16 December 1887 – 25 May 1956) was an Austrian mathematician. His doctoral dissertation was on the calculus of variations (in 1910, at the University of Vienna). Radon was born in Tetschen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Děčín, Czech Republic. He received his doctoral degree…
Examples where calculus of variations can be applied- finding minimal surfaces, finding geodesics, deriving Snell's law of refraction, getting an equation to solve the double pendulum problem numerically