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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438140403321

Autore

Penot Jean-Paul

Titolo

Calculus Without Derivatives / / by Jean-Paul Penot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

1-4614-4538-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (540 p.)

Collana

Graduate Texts in Mathematics, , 0072-5285 ; ; 266

Disciplina

515

Soggetti

Mathematical analysis

Analysis (Mathematics)

Functions of real variables

Mathematical optimization

System theory

Functional analysis

Applied mathematics

Engineering mathematics

Analysis

Real Functions

Optimization

Systems Theory, Control

Functional Analysis

Applications of Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [479]-517) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- 1 Metric and Topological Tools -- 2 Elements of Differential Calculus -- 3 Elements of Convex Analysis -- 4 Elementary and Viscosity Subdifferentials -- 5 Circa-Subdifferentials, Clarke Subdifferentials -- 6 Limiting Subdifferentials -- 7 Graded Subdifferentials, Ioffe Subdifferentials -- References -- Index .

Sommario/riassunto

Calculus Without Derivatives expounds the foundations and recent advances in nonsmooth analysis, a powerful compound of mathematical tools that obviates the usual smoothness assumptions. This textbook also provides significant tools and methods towards



applications, in particular optimization problems. Whereas most books on this subject focus on a particular theory, this text takes a general approach including all main theories. In order to be self-contained, the book includes three chapters of preliminary material, each of which can be used as an independent course if needed. The first chapter deals with metric properties, variational principles, decrease principles, methods of error bounds, calmness and metric regularity. The second one presents the classical tools of differential calculus and includes a section about the calculus of variations. The third contains a clear exposition of convex analysis.