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Ralph tyrrell rockafellar born february 10, 1935 is an american mathematician and one of the leading scholars in optimization theory and related fields of analysis and combinatorics. Apart from some local improvements, the present text is mostly a copy of the corresponding chapters. Rockafellars theory differs from classical analysis in that differentiability assumptions are replaced by convexity assumptions. Buy convex analysis princeton landmarks in mathematics and physics new ed by rockafellar, ralph tyrell isbn. The account is quite detailed and is written in a manner that will appeal to analysts and numerical practitioners alike. Based on the works of fenchel and other mathematicians from the 50s and early 60s such as the princeton school, rockafellar takes the subject to a new level, with a deep and comprehensive synthesis, focused primarily on a definitive development of duality theory, and of the convex analysis. Optimization iii convex analysis nonlinear programming.
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