Fuzzy mathematics, a concept proposed by L.A. Zadeh in 1965, introduces the idea of fuzzy sets, emphasizing elements' degrees of membership in certain classes as potentially infinite. Over decades, ...

Optimization without calculus; geometric programming; convex sets and convex functions; review of linear algebra; linear programming and the simplex method; convex programming; iterative ...

Optimization methods play a central role in financial modeling. This textbook is devoted to explaining how state-of-the-art optimization theory, algorithms, and software can be used to efficiently ...