A First Course in Optimization Theory

Rangarajan K. Sundaram (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

1996
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-49719-0 (ISBN)

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This book, first published in 1996, introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines. The first of its three parts examines the existence of solutions to optimization problems in Rn, and how these solutions may be identified. The second part explores how solutions to optimization problems change with changes in the underlying parameters, and the last part provides an extensive description of the fundamental principles of finite- and infinite-horizon dynamic programming. Each chapter contains a number of detailed examples explaining both the theory and its applications for first-year master's and graduate students. 'Cookbook' procedures are accompanied by a discussion of when such methods are guaranteed to be successful, and, equally importantly, when they could fail. Each result in the main body of the text is also accompanied by a complete proof. A preliminary chapter and three appendices are designed to keep the book mathematically self-contained.

1. Mathematical preliminaries; 2. Optimization in Rn; 3. Existence of solutions: the Weierstrass theorem; 4. Unconstrained optima; 5. Equality constraints and the theorem of Lagrange; 6. Inequality constraints and the theorem of Kuhn and Tucker; 7. Convex structures in optimization theory; 8. Quasi-convexity and optimization; 9. Parametric continuity: the maximum theorem; 10. Supermodularity and parametric monotonicity; 11. Finite-horizon dynamic programming; 12. Stationary discounted dynamic programming; Appendix A. Set theory and logic: an introduction; Appendix B. The real line; Appendix C. Structures on vector spaces; Bibliography.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.6.1996
Zusatzinfo	11 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	870 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-521-49719-1 / 0521497191
ISBN-13	978-0-521-49719-0 / 9780521497190
Zustand	Neuware