Variational Analysis and Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Giannessi, Franco (Editor), Maugeri, Antonino (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications, 79
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Differential equations.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Calculus of variations.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Analysis.; Optimization.; Ordinary Differential Equations.; Applications of Mathematics.

This book discusses a new discipline, variational analysis, which contains the calculus of variations, differential calculus, optimization, and variational inequalities. To such classic branches of mathematics, variational analysis provides a uniform theoretical base that represents a powerful tool...