Jindřich Nečas Memorial Seminar
Professor Gerhard Wanner (Université de Genève, Switzerland) will give a colloquium lecture on Monday, December 8th at 15:45 in lecture hall K1. On the discovery of Lagrange multipliers and Lagrange mechanics The talk explains how A thick book on statics (Varignon 1725), a letter by Johann Bernoulli to Varignon (1715), Euler’s Methodus (1744, on variational …