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Simulated Annealing: Theory and Applications 1987 Edition
Contributor(s): Van Laarhoven, P. J. (Author), Aarts, E. H. (Author)
ISBN: 9027725136     ISBN-13: 9789027725134
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $113.99  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 1987
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Operations Research
- Mathematics | Functional Analysis
- Computers | Cad-cam
Dewey: 515.8
LCCN: 87009666
Series: Mathematics and Its Applications
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.44" W x 9.52" (1.09 lbs) 187 pages
 
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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is Approach your problems from the right end and begin with the answers. Then one day, that they can't see the problem. perhaps you will find the final question. O. K. Chesterton. The Scandal of Father 'The Hermit Clad in Crane Feathers' in R. Brown 'The point of a Pin'. van Oulik's The Chinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks or increasingly specialized topics. However, the "tree" of knowledg of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also -happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the d and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces. And in addition to this there are such new emerging subdisciplines as "experimental mathematics", "CFD", "completely integrable systems", "chaos, synergetics and large-scale order", which are almost impossible to fit into the existing classification schemes. They draw upon widely different sections of mathematics.