Accord de différentes lois de la nature qui avaient jusqu'ici paru incompatibles.¶
Maupertuis, P. L. M. d. (1744). Accord de différentes lois de la nature qui avaient jusqu'ici paru incompatibles. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences.
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- Principle of Least Action
- … is that the dynamical laws of physics can be reformulated from local equations of motion (Newton's second law, Maxwell's equations) into a global variational statement: of all conceivable paths, the one the system actually takes is the one whose action is stationary (usually a minimum, sometimes a saddle point)
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- … is that the dynamical laws of physics can be reformulated from local equations of motion (Newton's second law, Maxwell's equations) into a global variational statement: of all conceivable paths, the one the system actually takes is the one whose action is stationary (usually a minimum, sometimes a saddle point)
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