へんぶんほう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of へんぶんほう – see the following entry.
変分法
[noun] (calculus) calculus of variations - The form of calculus that deals with the maxima and minima of definite integrals of functions of many variables
(This term, へんぶんほう (henbunhō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)