Zusammenfassung
E731 in the Enestrom index. Originally published as "Solutio problematis ob
singularia calculi artificia memorabilis", Memoires de l'academie des sciences
de St-Petersbourg 2 (1810), 3-9.
For \$z\$ the distance from the origin, and \$v\$ a given function of \$z\$, Euler
wants to find a curve \$s\$ such that the integral of \$z\$ over \$s\$ is a maximum
or a minimum. He starts with the Euler-Lagrange equation, and does a lot of
manipulations with polar coordinates.
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