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(2013) Calculus of variations, applied mathematics, and physics/Variationsrechnung, angewandte mathematik und physik, Dordrecht, Springer.
The paper treats the following question: How does a piece of sugar, considered as a rectangular prism, split if one tries to break it by gripping it at two opposite corners? Zermelo first analyzes the physical conditions and then provides a mathematically simple solution together with generalizations resulting from replacing the cross-section rectangle by ellipses and parallelograms.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70856-8_15
Full citation:
Ebbinghaus, H. (2013). Introductory note to 1933a, in Calculus of variations, applied mathematics, and physics/Variationsrechnung, angewandte mathematik und physik, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 722-733.
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