by Leroy Sachs (1984)
An enrichment program for seventh and eighth grade students studying such mathematical topics as "Microcomputer Programs," "Magic Squares," "Mathematics and Home Economics," "Pi and Its History," and "The Metric System," using research projects.
Nicholas Teebagy
Useful both for novice and experienced investors on Wall Street eager to minimize their risks, a comprehensive guide explains the elements of statistics and probability, the concept of the riskless portfolio, and more.
Urmila M. Diwekar
This text presents a multi-disciplined view of optimization, providing students and researchers with a thorough examination of algorithms, methods, and tools from diverse areas of optimization without introducing excessive theoretical detail. This second edition includes additional topics, including global optimization and a real-world case study using important concepts from each chapter. Key Features: Provides well-written self-contained chapters, including problem sets and exercises, making it ideal for the classroom setting; Introduces applied optimization to the hazardous waste blending problem; Explores linear programming, nonlinear programming, discrete optimization, global optimization, optimization under uncertainty, multi-objective optimization, optimal control and stochastic optimal control; Includes an extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter and an index; GAMS files of case studies for Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 are linked to Solutions manual available upon adoptions. Introduction to Applied Optimization is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and will benefit scientists from diverse areas, including engineers.
Marc Yor
These notes represent approximately the second half of lectures given by the author at ETH in a Nachdiplom course (winter term 1991-92), followed by six lectures in November and December 1993. They are organized in nine chapters, six of which are devoted to - expansion of filtration formulae, - Burkholder-Gundy inequalities up to any random time, - martingales which vanish on the zero set of Brownian motion, - the Azéma-Emery martingales and chaos representation, - the filtration of truncated Brownian motion, - attempts to characterize the Brownian filtration. The three remaining chapters concern principal value of diffusion local times, probabilistic representations of the Riemann zeta function, and progress made on some topics discussed in Part I. Most of the contents of this book are the objects of active research, centered on real-valued martingales and Brownian motion. This volume may be of interest to researchers either in probability theory or in more applied fields, such as mathematical finance.
Rembert Reemtsen, Jan-J. Rückmann
This volume provides an outstanding collection of tutorial and survey articles on semi-infinite programming by leading researchers. While the literature on semi-infinite programming has grown enormously, an up-to-date book on this exciting area of optimization has been sorely lacking. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part, Theory, includes an analysis of sensitivity and stability properties and a discussion of parameter-dependent problems. A comprehensive survey of existing methods and a discussion of connections with semi-definite programming are topics in the second part, Numerical Methods. Investigations of special problems from signal processing, reliability testing, and control theory make up the final part, Applications. Audience: This book is an indispensable reference and source for advanced students and researchers in applied mathematics and engineering.