Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Mathematical Sciences Applied Mathematics Calculus of Variations, Mathematical Aspects of Systems Theory and Control Theory Calculus of variations ...

Calculus of variations establishes a framework to determine the extrema of functionals—mappings from functions to real numbers—which has been pivotal in elucidating natural principles such as the ...

In the Idea of Limits video, we introduce the idea of limits and discuss how it underpins all of the major concepts in calculus. In the Limit Laws video, we introduce the limit laws and discuss how to ...