The historical development of classical stability concepts: Lagrange, poisson and lyapunov stability

Nonlinear Dynamics

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 173-182

  Leine, Remco I ^a  

^a Institute of Mechanical Systems (IMES)   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

History of mechanics; Lagrange Dirichlet stability theorem; Lyapunov; Stability theory; Torricelli's axiom

Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET; HISTORY OF MECHANICS; LAGRANGE; LYAPUNOV STABILITY THEORY; STABILITY THEOREMS;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MECHANICS;

STABILITY;

EID: 77949425437     PISSN: 0924090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11071-009-9530-z     Document Type: Article

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