Did you consider yourself a mathematician the last time you sat down to solve a Sudoku puzzle? It’s certainly a mentally ...

This paper gives general conditions under which a collection of optimization problems, with the objective function and the constraint set depending on a parameter, has optimal solutions that are an ...

In this work, we present a robust optimization method that is suited for unconstrained problems with a nonconvex cost function as well as for problems based on simulations, such as large partial ...

Optimization problems in calculus are always asking to maximize or minimize some quantity. Typical phrases that indicate an optimization problem include: "Find the largest ..." or "Find the minimum ..

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