I guess Euler-Langrangian mechanics was too much of a mouthful!
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DevCuber@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I don’t know what any of those are, but surely lagrangian mechanics was invented by Lagrange, right
ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
An old bit of wisdom: “Most scientific concepts are named after the second person to discover them”
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
hmmm… I was going to go with continuum mechanics as that seems made up. Maybe Euler contributed something to Lagrange.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_mechanics
Continuum mechanics deals with deformable bodies, as opposed to rigid bodies.
I guess F = ma is pure Newton + Galileo.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Euler thought up or improved way too many things for them all to be named after him, it would get too confusing.
From his wiki: “Euler’s work averages 800 pages a year from 1725 to 1783. He also wrote over 4500 letters and hundreds of manuscripts. It has been estimated that Leonhard Euler was the author of a quarter of the combined output in mathematics, physics, mechanics, astronomy, and navigation in the 18th century.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler
And a relevant xkcd: Image