Advances in Geometric Programming (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)

In 1961, C. Zener, then Director of Science at Westinghouse Corpora tion, and a member of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences who has made important contributions to physics and engineering, published a short article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled" A Mathe matical Aid in Optimizing Engineering Design. " In this article Zener considered the problem of finding an optimal engineering design that can often be expressed as the problem of minimizing a numerical cost function, termed a "generalized polynomial," consisting of a sum of terms, where each term is a product of a positive constant and the design variables, raised to arbitrary powers. He observed that if the number of terms exceeds the number of variables by one, the optimal values of the design variables can be easily found by solving a set of linear equations. Furthermore, certain invariances of the relative contribution of each term to the total cost can be deduced. The mathematical intricacies in Zener's method soon raised the curiosity of R. J. Duffin, the distinguished mathematician from Carnegie Mellon University who joined forces with Zener in laying the rigorous mathematical foundations of optimizing generalized polynomials. Interes tingly, the investigation of optimality conditions and properties of the optimal solutions in such problems were carried out by Duffin and Zener with the aid of inequalities, rather than the more common approach of the Kuhn-Tucker theory."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering, 21
Release date:	March 2013
First published:	1980
Authors:	Mordecai Avriel
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	460
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
ISBN-13:	978-1-4615-8287-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Algebraic geometry Promotions
LSN:	1-4615-8287-3
Barcode:	9781461582878

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