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by ericdfoley 812 days ago
Helliwell & Sahakian Modern Classical Mechanics at least seems to do a much better job of explaining the Legendre transform than Goldstein, but it still never mentions the convexity requirement on f.

I feel like understanding the general convex conjugate and then seeing the Legendre transform as a special case is almost more intuitive.