Thank you so much for replying! I must admit that although I have come across functionals it was only as an introduction to the purely mathematical concept of the dual space being the set of all linear functionals etc so it seems as though the calculus of variations seems as something i should...
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As a background I am a community college student about to transfer to a university trying to better myself and catch up with the competition. I have taken multivariable calc, a basic linear algebra class, and an ordinary differential equations class, and would like to further myself at...