Download or read book The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control written by George Leitmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1981-05-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to present an introductory treatment of the calculus of variations in Part I and of optimal control theory in Part II. The discussion in Part I is restricted to the simplest problem of the calculus of variations. The topic is entirely classical; all of the basic theory had been developed before the turn of the century. Consequently the material comes from many sources.