THE HAMILTON PRINCIPLE

POINCARÉ, HENRI.

Sur une Forme nouvelle des Équations du Probleme des trois Corps.

(Berlin, Uppsala & Stockholm, Paris, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1897). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica. Hrsg. von G. Mittag-Leffler.", Bd. 21, pp. 83-97.

First edition. In this paper Poincaré arrives at a new theorem about canonical transformation, and in his later "Methodes Nouvelles", he proved this theorem using a variiational principle of mechanics, known today as the Hamilton principle.

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