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Legendre Transformation

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Why is it interesting?

The Legendre transformation is a useful mathematical tool that is used in thermodynamics, classical mechanics and quantum field theory.

Maybe the most famous application is that the Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian are Legendre transformations of each other.

Beginner

See Ryder - Quantum Field Theory page 260

Examples

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