• DOI:10.1023/A:1023952102705
Corpus ID: 55123947

On the Genesis of the Lagrange Multipliers

@article{Bussotti2003OnTG,
  title={On the Genesis of the Lagrange Multipliers},
  author={P. Bussotti},
  journal={Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications},
  year={2003},
  volume={117},
  pages={453-459}
}

• P. Bussotti
• Published 2003
• Mathematics
• Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

The genesis of the Lagrange multipliers is analyzed in this work. Particularly, the author shows that this mathematical approach was introduced by Lagrange in the framework of statics in order to determine the general equations of equilibrium for problems with constraints. Indeed, the multipliers allowed Lagrange to treat the questions of maxima and minima in differential calculus and in calculus of variations in the same way as problems of statics: if the equilibrium of a point or a system of… Expand

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