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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 athematics, variational analysis provides a uniform theoretical base that represents a powerful tool for the applications. The contributors are among the best experts in the field.
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V A R I A T I O N A L A N A L Y S I S AND APPLICATIONS
Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications V O L U M E 79
Managing Editor: Panos Pardalos
University of Florida, U.S.A. Advisory Board." J. R. Birge
University of Michigan, U.S.A. Ding-Zhu Du
University of Minnesota, U.S.A. C. A. Floudas
Princeton University, U.S.A. J. Mockus
Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Lithuania H. D. Sherali
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, U.S.A. G. Stavroulakis
Technical University Braunschweig, Germany H. Tuy
National Centre for Natural Science and Technology, Vietnam
V A R I A T I O N A L A N A L Y S I S AND APPLICATIONS
Edited by FRANCO GIANNESSI University of Pisa, Italy ANTONINO MAUGERI University of Catania, Italy
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ISBN-10:0-387-24209-0 e-ISBN-10:0-387-24276-7
ISBN-I_ 3 : 9 7 8 - 0 3 8 7 - 2 4 2 0 9 - 5 e-ISBN-13:978-0387-24276-7
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