Kategoria BISAC: Mathematics >> Calculus

In the field of nondifferentiable nonconvex optimization, one of the most intensely investigated areas is that of optimization problems involving multivalued mappings in constraints or as the objective function. This book focuses on the tremendous development in the field that has taken place since the publication of the most recent volumes on the subject. The new topics studied include the formulation of optimality conditions using different kinds of generalized derivatives for set-valued mappings (such as, for example, the coderivative of Mordukhovich), the opening of new applications...

Presently, general-purpose optimization techniques such as Simulated Annealing, and Genetic Algorithms, have become standard optimization techniques. Concerted research efforts have been made recently in order to invent novel optimization techniques for solving real life problems, which have the attributes of memory update and population-based search solutions. The book describes a variety of these novel optimization techniques which in most cases outperform the standard optimization techniques in many application areas. New Optimization Techniques in Engineering reports...

Functional Analysis is primarily concerned with the structure of infinite dimensional vector spaces and the transformations, which are frequently called operators, between such spaces. The elements of these vector spaces are usually functions with certain properties, which map one set into another. Functional analysis became one of the success stories of mathematics in the 20th century, in the search for generality and unification.

"Ein Naturgesetz ist eine unveranderliche Beziehung zwischen der Erscheinung von heute und der von morgen, mit einem Wort: es ist eine Differentialgleichung." So Henri Poincare, einer der groten Mathematiker um 1900. Die Naturwissenschaften sind ohne Differentialgleichungen nicht vorstellbar. Dieses Buch mochte deshalb nicht nur in ihre Theorie einfuhren, sondern mittels vieler Beispiele aus Physik, Chemie, Astronomie, Biologie, Medizin und Ingenieurwissenschaften auch Ausblicke auf ihre naturerschlieende Kraft und ihre...

Die Theorie fuhrt in den Euler-Lagrange-Kalkul und in die Direkten Methoden der Variationsrechnung ein. Die Ausfuhrungen werden von Abbildungen begleitet, die das Verstandnis erleichtern. Zu jedem Abschnitt werden...