A few words about history of extremal problems at Moscow University
A paper of Legendre revisited.
Caccioppoli sets
The story of the theory of Caccioppoli sets is presented, together with some information about Renato Caccioppoli’s life. The fundamental contributions of Ennio De Giorgi to the theory of Caccioppoli sets are sketched. A list of applications of Cacciopoli sets to the calculus of variations is finally included.
David Hilbert a variační počet
Interview with Professor Stefan Rolewicz and Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz
"On the Shoulders of Giants" A brief excursion into the history of mathematical programming
Similar to many mathematical fields also the topic of mathematical programming has its origin in applied problems. But, in contrast to other branches of mathematics, we don't have to dig too deeply into the past centuries to find their roots. The historical tree of mathematical programming, starting from its conceptual roots to its present shape, is remarkably short, and to quote Isaak Newton, we can say: "We are standing on the shoulders of giants". The goal of...
Some facts related to the papers by L. V. Kantorovich reproduced in this issue.
Z historie inverzního variačního problému: Odvození podmínek silné variačnosti