Product Description: There has been much recent progress in global optimization algo­ rithms for nonconvex continuous and discrete problems from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. Convex analysis plays a fun­ damental role in the analysis and development of global optimization algorithms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This great classic is at once a book for the beginner, a reference work for the advanced scholar and a source of inspiration for the research worker. The text is in German.

Product Description: Based on lectures by a noted mathematician, this text offers an essential background in conformal representation. Subjects include the Möbius transformation, non-Euclidean geometry, elementary transformations, Schwarz's Lemma, transformation of the frontier and closed surfaces, and the general theorem of uniformization...read more

Product Description: By generalizing the concept of point function to that of a function (``soma'' function ) over a Boolean ring, Caratheodory gives in this book an elegant algebraic treatment of measure and integration.

Product Description: In this second English edition of Carathéodory's famous work (originally published in German), the two volumes of the first edition have been combined into one (with a combination of the two indexes into a single index). There is a deep and fundamental relationship between the differential equations that occur in the calculus of variations and partial differential equations of the first order: in particular, to each such partial differential equation there correspond variational problems...read more