Convex Functions and their Applications

A Contemporary Approach
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4419-2028-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 421 g

Reihe: CMS Books in Mathematics

Thorough introduction to an important area of mathematics

Contains recent results

Includes many exercises

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Niculescu, Constantin

Persson, Lars-Erik

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Funktionentheorie, Komplexe Analysis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Convex Functions on Intervals * Comparative Convexity on Intervals * Convex Functions on Banach Spaces * Choquet’s Theory * A Background on Convex Sets * B Elementary Symmetric Functions * C The Convex Programming Problem * D The Variational Approach of PDE * E Horn’s Conjecture

Über Autor(innen)

Persson, Lars-Erik
Lars Erik Persson is Professor of Mathematics at Luleå University of Technology and Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the director of Center of Applied Mathematics at Luleå, a member of the Swedish National Committee of Mathematics at the Royal Academy of Sciences, and served as President of the Swedish Mathematical Society (1996-1998). He received his doctorate from Umeå University in 1974. Dr. Persson has published on interpolation of operators, Fourier analysis, function theory, inequalities and homogenization theory. He has received several prizes both for research and teaching.

Niculescu, Constantin
Constantin P. Niculescu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Craiova, Romania. Dr. Niculescu directs the Centre for Nonlinear Analysis and Its Applications and also the graduate program in Applied Mathematics at Craiova. He received his doctorate from the University of Bucharest in 1974. He published in Banach Space Theory, Convexity Inequalities and Dynamical Systems, and has received several prizes both for research and exposition.

Constantin P. Niculescu is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Craiova, Romania. Dr. Niculescu directs the Centre for Nonlinear Analysis and Its Applications and also the graduate program in Applied Mathematics at Craiova. He received his doctorate from the University of Bucharest in 1974. He published in Banach Space Theory, Convexity Inequalities and Dynamical Systems, and has received several prizes both for research and exposition.

Lars Erik Persson is Professor of Mathematics at Luleå University of Technology and Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the director of Center of Applied Mathematics at Luleå, a member of the Swedish National Committee of Mathematics at the Royal Academy of Sciences, and served as President of the Swedish Mathematical Society (1996-1998). He received his doctorate from Umeå University in 1974. Dr. Persson has published on interpolation of operators, Fourier analysis, function theory, inequalities and homogenization theory. He has received several prizes both for research and teaching.