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creators_name: Carpinteri, Alberto
creators_name: Paggi, Marco
creators_id: 
creators_id: marco.paggi@imtlucca.it
title: Lagrange and his Mécanique Analytique: from Kantian noumenon to present applications
ispublished: pub
subjects: Q1
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: The deduction of most of the fundamental laws governing solid and fluid mechanics is due to Lagrange. As already mentioned by several researchers and science historians, analytical mechanics has achieved the highest degree of perfection thanks to Lagrange’s work. The aim of this editorial is to provide a critical review of the second edition of Mécanique Analytique, which has been considered Lagrange’s opera summa, and to illustrate the influence of such a treatise on modern mechanics. Particular emphasis will be given to the current perspectives of Lagrange’s work in relation to the many mathematical and engineering developments that have been inspired by it.
date: 2014-01-21
date_type: published
publication: Meccanica
volume: 49
number: 1
pagerange: 1-11
id_number: 10.1007/s11012-013-9864-y
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0025-6455
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11012-013-9864-y
citation:   Carpinteri, Alberto and Paggi, Marco  Lagrange and his Mécanique Analytique: from Kantian noumenon to present applications.  Meccanica, 49 (1).  pp. 1-11.  ISSN 0025-6455      (2014)