Bøger udgivet af Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics,U.S.

This second edition has been updated and expanded to cover recent developments in applications and theory, including an elegant NP completeness argument by Uwe Naumann and a brief introduction to scarcity, a generalization of sparsity. There is also added material on checkpointing and iterative differentiation.

Analyses Lagrange multiplier theory and demonstrates its impact on the development of numerical algorithms for variational problems in function spaces.