Optimiz by Vector Space Methds credit:

4 Hours

Normed, Banach, and Hilbert spaces; applications of the projection theorem and the Hahn-Banach Theorem to problems of minimum norm, least squares estimation, mathematical programming, and optimal control; the Kuhn-Tucker Theorem and Pontryagin's maximum principle; iterative methods. Prerequisite: MATH 415 or MATH 482 ; MATH 447 .