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variational principle

a scientific principle used within the calculus of variations, which develops general methods for finding functions which extremize the value of quantities that depend upon those functions
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variational principle

Summary

variational principle ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (100 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • variational principle's subclass of is recorded as principle[2].
  • variational principle's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02gv11[3].
  • variational principle's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Variational principles[4].
  • variational principle's PSH ID is recorded as 3082[5].
  • variational principle's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[6].
  • variational principle's used by is recorded as calculus of variations[7].
  • variational principle's studied by is recorded as science[8].
  • variational principle's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 9259290[9].
  • variational principle's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C9259290[10].

Why It Matters

variational principle ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (100 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11]

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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