Essays in Mathematics and its Applications In Honor of Stephen Smale´s 80th Birthday /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pardalos, Panos M. (Editor), Rassias, Themistocles M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mathematical optimization.; Applications of Mathematics.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Optimization.

The volume is dedicated to Stephen Smale on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Besides his startling 1960 result of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture for all dimensions greater than or equal to five, Smale’s ground breaking contributions invarious fields in Mathematics have marked the second part...