"Ours, according to Leibnitz, is the best of all possible worlds, and the laws of nature can therefore be described in terms of extremal principles. Thus, arising from corresponding variational problems, the differential equations of mechanics have invariance properties relative to certain groups of coordinate transformations."
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Carl Ludwig Siegel, Lectures on Celestial Mechanics (1971) p. 1.
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