Variational Calculus and Optimal Control: Optimization with Elementary Convexity Hardcover - 1995
by John L. Troutman
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This chapter presents a brief summary of the standard terminology and basic results related to characterizing the maximal and minimal values of a real valued function f defined on a set D in Euclidean space.
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This book supplies a broad-based introduction to variational methods for formulating and solving problems in mathematics and the applied sciences. It refines and extends the author's earlier text on variational calculus and a supplement on optimal control. It is the only current introductory text that uses elementary partial convexity of differentiable functions to characterize directly the solutions of some minimization problems before exploring necessary conditions for optimality or field theory methods of sufficiency. Through effective notation, it combines rudiments of analysis in (normed) linear spaces with simpler aspects of convexity to offer a multilevel strategy for handling such problems. It also employs convexity considerations to broaden the discussion of Hamilton's principle in mechanics and to introduce Pontjragin's principle in optimal control. It is mathematically self-contained but it uses applications from many disciplines to provide a wealth of examples and exercises. The book is accessible to upper-level undergraduates and should help its user understand theories of increasing importance in a society that values optimal performance.
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- Title Variational Calculus and Optimal Control: Optimization with Elementary Convexity
- Author John L. Troutman
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 2nd
- Pages 462
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-12-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780387945118 / 0387945113
- Weight 1.82 lbs (0.83 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 6.4 x 1.08 in (24.31 x 16.26 x 2.74 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mathematical optimization, Control theory
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95012918
- Dewey Decimal Code 515.64
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