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The slides for this talk were generated using Gamma by the prompt “I want a presentation about the history of the calculus of variations that includes the story of Dido, the contributions of the Bernoullis and Newton, of Euler, Lagrange, Riemann, Weierstrass, Hilbert, Noether, and the direct method of Tonelli. I want details about the need for function spaces for the trace in regard to Hilbert’s mistake, about the additional Euler-Lagrange equations found by Noether, and about Tonelli’s direct method.” Further refinements were then made by prompting Gamma to modify slides. In this talk we use these slides and prompts as a basis for a parallel discussion about the important points of the Calculus of Variations and AI’s ability to understand relevance. A full list of refinement prompts is presented at the end.

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