1. One corresponding concept in mechanics is the principle of least action . 2. The action, via the principle of least action , and application of Lorentz group theory. 3. K�nig is remembered largely for his disagreements with Leonhard Euler, concerning the principle of least action . 4. Chatterjee found that Murphy's law so stated could be disproved using the principle of least action . 5. This contrasts the geodesic motions which are central to the study of Hamilton's principle of least action . 6. And the beauty of his principle of least action was that it applied just as well to hard and elastic bodies. 7. A major advance came in 1788 with the development of Lagrangian mechanics, which is related to the principle of least action . 8. The principle of least action can be applied to such fields, but the action is now an integral over space and time 9. Scholars often credit Pierre Louis Maupertuis for formulating the principle of least action because he wrote about it in 1744 and 1746. 10. A general way to find the equations of motion from the action is the " principle of least action ":