Mathematics of Computing -- General.

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In the late forties, Mathematical Programming became a scientific discipline in its own right. Since then it has experienced a tremendous growth. Beginning with

This volume provides a broad and uniform introduction of PDE-constrained optimization as well as to document a number of interesting and challenging application

The first contemporary comprehensive treatment of optimization without derivatives. This text explains how sampling and model techniques are used in derivative-