Global Optimization Using Interval Analysis: v. 165 (Pure and Applied Mathematics) - Hardcover

Hansen, Eldon R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824786963 ISBN 13: 9780824786960

Publisher: Marcel Dekker Inc, 1992

Synopsis

Employing a closed set-theoretic foundation for interval computations, Global Optimization Using Interval Analysis simplifies algorithm construction and increases generality of interval arithmetic. This Second Edition contains an up-to-date discussion of interval methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations and global optimization problems. It expands and improves various aspects of its forerunner and features significant new discussions, such as those on the use of consistency methods to enhance algorithm performance. Provided algorithms are guaranteed to find and bound all solutions to these problems despite bounded errors in data, in approximations, and from use of rounded arithmetic.

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This book maps Christopher Isherwood's intellectual and aesthetic reflections from the late 1930s through the late 1970s. Drawing on the queer theory of Eve Sedgwick and the ethical theory of Michel Foucault, Carr illuminates Isherwood's post-war development of a queer ethos through his focus on the aesthetic, social, and historical politics of the 1930s in his novels Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and Down There on a Visit (1962), and in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939 (1976).

Review

"I wholeheartedly endorse this important new volume, and recommend its serious study by all who are concerned with global optimization." Ramon Moore, Professor Emeritus of Computer and Information Science, Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marcel Dekker Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824786963
• ISBN 13: 9780824786960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256