1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792748203321

Autore

Leiris Michel <1901-1990, >

Titolo

Fibrils : The Rules of the Game, Volume 3 / / Michel Leiris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-300-22785-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Collana

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Altri autori (Persone)

DavisLydia

Disciplina

848/.91209

Soggetti

Poets, French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE -- La Fière, la fière . . . -- I -- II -- III -- IV

Sommario/riassunto

A major publishing event: the third volume of Michel Leiris's renowned autobiography, now available in English for the first time in a brilliant translation by Lydia Davis A beloved and versatile author and ethnographer, French intellectual Michel Leiris is often ranked in the company of Proust, Gide, Sartre, and Camus, yet his work remains largely unfamiliar to English-language readers. This brilliant translation of Fibrils, the third volume of his monumental autobiographical project The Rules of the Game, invites us to discover why Lévi-Strauss proclaimed him "incontestably one of the greatest writers of the century."   Leiris's autobiographical essay, a thirty-five-year project, is a primary document of the examined life in the twentieth century. In Fibrils, Leiris reconciles literary commitment with social/political engagement. He recounts extensive travel and anthropological work, including a 1955 visit to Mao's China. He also details his suicidal "descent into Hell," when the guilt over an extramarital affair becomes unbearable. A ruthless self-examiner, Leiris seeks to invent a new way of remembering, probe the mechanisms of memory and explore the way a life can be told.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020172103321

Autore

Kaplan Wilfred <1915->

Titolo

Maxima and minima with applications : practical optimization and duality / / Wilfred Kaplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Wiley, c1999

ISBN

9786613306210

9781283306218

1283306212

9781118032794

1118032799

9781118031049

1118031040

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Wiley-Interscience series in discrete mathematics and optimization

Disciplina

511/.66

Soggetti

Maxima and minima

Mathematical optimization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Maxima and Minima with Applications: Practical Optimization and Duality; Contents; Preface; 1 Maxima and Minima in Analytic Geometry; 1.1 Maxima and Minima;  Case of Functions of One Variable; Problems 1.1-1.5; 1.2 Convexity; 1.3 Convexity and Maxima and Minima; Problems 1.6-1.16; 1.4 Problems in Two Dimensions; Problems 1.17-1.27; 1.5 Some Geometric Extremum Problems; Problems 1.28-1.36; 1.6 Geometry of n-Dimensional Space; 1.7 Convex Functions of n Variables; 1.8 Quadratic Forms; Problems 1.37-1.55; 1.9 Convexity and Extrema, Level Sets and Sublevel Sets; Problems 1.56-1.63; 1.10 Stability

1.11 Global Asymptotic Stability, Application to Finding MinimizerProblems 1.64-1.73; 1.12 Extrema of Functions on Unbounded Closed Sets; 1.13 Shortest Distance from a Linear Variety; Problems 1.74-1.84; 1.14 Other Inner Products and Norms in Rn; 1.15 More on Minimum Problems for Quadratic Functions; Problems 1.85-1.93; 1.16 Physical Applications; Problems 1.94-1.96; 1.17 Best



Approximation by Polynomials; Problems 1.97-1.105; References; 2 Side Conditions; 2.1 Review of Vector Calculus; Problems 2.1-2.13; 2.2 Local Maxima and Minima, Side Conditions; Problems 2.14-2.21

2.3 Second-Derivative TestProblems 2.22-2.26; 2.4 Gradient Method for Finding Critical Points; Problems 2.27-2.28; 2.5 Applications; Problems 2.29-2.33; 2.6 Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Conditions; Problems 2.34-2.37; 2.7 Sufficient Conditions for the Mathematical Programming Problem; 2.8 Proof of the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Conditions; Problems 2.38-2.49; References; 3 Optimization; 3.1 Convexity; Problems 3.1-3.17; 3.2 Mathematical Programming, Duality; 3.3 Unconstrained Quadratic Optimization; Problems 3.18-3.28; 3.4 Constrained Quadratic Optimization in Rn

3.5 QP with Inequality Constraints, QP AlgorithmProblems 3.29-3.38; 3.6 Linear Programming; 3.7 Simplex Algorithm; Problems 3.39-3.55; 3.8 LP with Bounded Variables; Problems 3.56-3.62; 3.9 Convex Functions and Convex Programming; Problems 3.63-3.68; 3.10 The Fermat-Weber Problem and a Dual Problem; Problems 3.69-3.76; 3.11 A Duality Relation in Higher Dimensions; Problems 3.77-3.84; References; 4 Fenchel-Rockafellar Duality Theory; 4.1 Generalized Directional Derivative; Problems 4.1-4.5; 4.2 Local Structure of the Boundary of a Convex Set; Problems 4.6-4.8

4.3 Supporting Hyperplane, Separating HyperplaneProblems 4.9-4.15; 4.4 New Definition of Convex Function, Epigraph, Hypograph; Problems 4.16-4.17; 4.5 Conjugate of Convex and Concave Functions; Problems 4.18-4.24; 4.6 Fenchel Duality Theorem; Problems 4.25-4.32; 4.7 Rockafellar Duality Theorem; 4.8 Proof of Lemma C; Problems 4.33-4.45; 4.9 Norms, Dual Norms, Minkowski Norms; Problems 4.46-4.61; 4.10 Generalized Fermat-Weber Problem; 4.11 Application to Facility Location; Problems 4.62-4.74; References; Appendix: Linear Algebra; Answers to Selected Problems; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This new work by Wilfred Kaplan, the distinguished author of influential mathematics and engineering texts, is destined to become a classic. Timely, concise, and content-driven, it provides an intermediate-level treatment of maxima, minima, and optimization. Assuming only a background in calculus and some linear algebra, Professor Kaplan presents topics in order of difficulty. In four short chapters, he describes basic concepts and geometric aspects of maxima and minima, progresses to problems with side conditions, introduces optimization and programming, and concludes with an in-depth discuss