most recent 30 from http://mathoverflow.net 2013-05-25T01:05:57Z http://mathoverflow.net/feeds/user/25451 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://mathoverflow.net/questions/103623/who-came-up-with-the-euler-lagrange-equation jacobi 2012-07-31T16:58:35Z 2012-07-31T20:18:51Z

<p>Which man came up with the solution to the basic Calculus of Variations problem first?</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler-Lagrange" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler-Lagrange</a></p> <p>Makes it sound like Lagrange got it first in 1755, then sent it to Euler.</p> <p>But</p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_variations" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_variations</a></p> <p>makes it sound like Euler got it in the 1730s.</p> <p>Could somebody please explain which man actually wrote out the equation first, and what the other then contributed to it? </p>