E731 -- Solutio problematis ob singularia calculi artivicia memorabilis
(The solution of a memorable problem by a special artifice of calculation)
Summary:
According to Eneström, "The problem is: 'Invenire lineam curvam AM, in qua, positis coordinatis CP = x,
PM = y, arcu AM = s et recta
CM = Ö(xx + yy) = z; formula integralis ∫ v ds maximum minimumve
valorum obtineat, exsistente v
functione quacunque ipsius z."
Publication:
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Originally published in Memoires de l'academie des sciences de St.-Petersbourg 2, 1810, pp. 3-9
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Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 25, pp. 280 - 285
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