The Shortest Path Between Two Points Using Finite Differences

January 2025

I was bored on my flight to Lisbon so I decided to try this. It is, in reality, the solution to problem 1 of Gelfand and Fomin's Calculus of Variations. I couldn't get Mathematica to export the notebook nicely to html so I hope the following pdf and Mathematica notebook will suffice.

The notebook can be found here.