We walk through an optimization problem step by step, clearly explaining how to identify variables, set up the correct function, apply derivatives, and find maximum or minimum values. Each step is ...

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THIS little book contains valuable notes taken of lectures delivered at the University of California in the spring of 1938. The aim of the lecturer was to acquaint the student with a skeleton of the ...

Divya Tyagi, right, a Penn State engineering graduate student, shows her work on a century-old math problem to Sven Schmitz, a College of Engineering faculty member and Tyagi's adviser.Kevin Sliman A ...

Method and analysis Our project links several nationwide Norwegian registries. The patient sample is all persons aged 5–18 years that were in contact with public sector child and adolescent ...

Abstract: In this article, we present a proper extension of the problems of classical calculus of variations and of optimal control to the case of discontinuous trajectories. An appropriate impulsive ...