Introduction to the Theory of Nonlinear Optimization

Johannes Jahn

ISBN 10: 3642426573 / ISBN 13: 9783642426575

Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book serves as an introductory text to optimization theory in normed spaces. Topics of this book are existence results, various differentiability notions together with optimality conditions, the contingent cone, a generalization of the Lagrange multiplier rule, duality theory, extended semidefinite optimization, and the investigation of linear quadratic and time minimal control problems. This textbook presents fundamentals with particular emphasis on the application to problems in the calculus of variations, approximation and optimal control theory. The reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of linear functional analysis.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Theory of Nonlinear Optimization
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3642426573
• ISBN 13: 9783642426575
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Neu

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Synopsis

This book serves as an introductory text to optimization theory in normed spaces and covers all areas of nonlinear optimization. It presents fundamentals with particular emphasis on the application to problems in the calculus of variations, approximation and optimal control theory. The reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of linear functional analysis.

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This book serves as an introductory text to optimization theory in normed spaces. Topics of this book are existence results, various differentiability notions together with optimality conditions, the contingent cone, a generalization of the Lagrange multiplier rule, duality theory, extended semidefinite optimization, and the investigation of linear quadratic and time minimal control problems. This textbook presents fundamentals with particular emphasis on the application to problems in the calculus of variations, approximation and optimal control theory. The reader is expected to have a basic knowledge of linear functional analysis.