Advances in Applied Mathematics and Global Optimization

Download or read book Advances in Applied Mathematics and Global Optimization written by David Y. Gao and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-09 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles that comprise this distinguished annual volume for the Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics series have been written in honor of Gilbert Strang, a world renowned mathematician and exceptional person. Written by leading experts in complementarity, duality, global optimization, and quantum computations, this collection reveals the beauty of these mathematical disciplines and investigates recent developments in global optimization, nonconvex and nonsmooth analysis, nonlinear programming, theoretical and engineering mechanics, large scale computation, quantum algorithms and computation, and information theory.