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What is the Euler-Lagrange equation? Leonhard Euler
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What is the Euler-Lagrange equation?

The Euler-Lagrange equation is a fundamental equation in the calculus of variations, derived by Euler and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. It provides the conditions that a function must satisfy to be a stationary point of a functional, which is crucial for physics, particularly in finding the paths that a physical system follows in classical mechanics.