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What is the title of Lagrange's treatise on analytical mechanics?

  • Mécanique analytique

  • Principia Mathematica

  • Elements

  • Disquisitiones Arithmeticae

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Mécanique analytique, published in 1788, is a seminal work by Joseph-Louis Lagrange that laid the foundation for analytical mechanics. It introduced the concept of generalized coordinates, which describe the position of a system without specifying the individual coordinates of each particle. This approach simplified the equations of motion and allowed for a more general treatment of mechanical systems.
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