Theory of Global Random Search: 65 (Mathematics and its Applications, 65) - Hardcover

Zhigljavsky, Anatoly A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0792311221 ISBN 13: 9780792311225

Publisher: Springer, 1991

Synopsis

One service mathematics has rendered the 'Et moi, ...• si j'avait su comment en revenir. je n'y serais point aIle.' human mee. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non­ The series is divergent; therefore we may be sense'. Eric T. Bell able to do something with it. O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non­ linearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics .. .'; 'One service logic has rendered com­ puter science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'etre of this series.

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Synopsis

Zhigljavsky (Leningrad U.) presents, in a systematic and thorough way, the methods and theoretical results relating to the global optimization problem of a multivariate function. Global random optimization methods and statistical inferences concerning the maximum of a function and the endpoints of a distribution are studied in detail. Related probl

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792311221
• ISBN 13: 9780792311225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 359
• Editor: Pintér János D.