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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Niels Lauritzen (Aarhus Univ, Denmark)Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.440kg ISBN: 9789814452762ISBN 10: 9814452769 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 06 May 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Basics; The Double Description Method; Closed Convex Sets; Convex Functions of One Variable; Differentiable Functions of Several Variables; Convex Functions of Several Variables; Convex Optimization.ReviewsOverall, the author has managed to keep a sound balance between the different approaches to convexity in geometry, analysis, and applied mathematics. The entire presentation is utmost lucid, didactically well-composed, thematically versatile and essentially self-contained. The large number of instructive examples and illustrating figures will certainly help the unexperienced reader grasp the abstract concepts, methods and results, all of which are treated in a mathematically rigorous way. Also, the emphasis on computational, especially algorithmic methods is a particular feature of this fine undergraduate textbook, which will be a great source for students and instructors like-wise the book under review is an excellent, rather unique primer on convexity in several branches of mathematics. -- Zentralblatt MATH Zentralblatt MATH Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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