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For example, I learned Lagrange's equation by rote as an undergrad and didn't understand why it worked for years afterward.
Steven Levitt, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For example, the mere fact that we can describe both the behavior of a system of gravitating masses and the operation of an electric circuit by means of Lagrange's equations does not mean that we have achieved a common explanation of the behavior of both or that we have “unified” gravitation and electricity in any physically interesting sense.
Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009
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Euler's equation treated fluids as continua or fields, whereas Lagrange's formulation treats them as discrete particles (see Emanuel 2000, 8).
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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Helmholtz knew of Euler's and Lagrange's previous mathematical formulas describing fluid motion.
Hermann von Helmholtz Patton, Lydia 2008
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Analytical mechanics - Lagrange's equation and its application (PDF), University of Missouri-Rolla.
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Lagrange's treatise is old-fashioned, but readable, Newton's treatise is “immortal,” but antiquarian, and very difficult.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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You had better leave the country, for I can surmise what agency _you_ had in the affair of Lagrange's disappearance; but as you were the tool of others, I stoop not to molest you.
Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life George Thompson
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For more advanced work, Lagrange's "Physiology of Bodily Exercise" and the
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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At Lagrange's name, Therese recalled the flaming comet announced by the savant, and said to herself, with mocking sadness, that it was time for that comet to put an end to the world and take her out of her trouble.
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Lagrange's past; or, perhaps, some fancied recognition of the artist's genius and its possibilities; the strange man gave no hint; but he constantly sought the company of Aaron King, with an openness that made his preference for the painter's society very evident.
The Eyes of the World Harold Bell Wright 1908
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