Introduction to the Theory of Nonlinear Optimization

• Main Author: Jahn, Johannes (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Edition: Third Edition.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Calculus of variations.; Computational intelligence.; Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Computational Intelligence.

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 semidefi...