Calculus Without Derivatives

• Main Author: Penot, Jean-Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 266
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical analysis.; Analysis (Mathematics).; Functional analysis.; Functions of real variables.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; System theory.; Mathematical optimization.; Analysis.; Real Functions.; Optimization.; Systems Theory, Control.; Functional Analysis.; Applications of Mathematics.

Calculus Without Derivatives expounds the foundations and recent advances in nonsmooth analysis, a powerful compound of mathematical tools that obviates the usual smoothness assumptions. This textbook also provides significant tools and methods towards applications, in particular optimization proble...