This book deals with the new class of one-dimensional variational problems OCo the problems with branching solutions. Instead of extreme curves (mappings of a s

This book deals with the new class of one-dimensional variational problems — the problems with branching solutions. Instead of extreme curves (mappings of a s

This book provides a basic, initial resource, introducing science and engineering students to the field of optimization. It covers three main areas: mathematica

Steiner's Problem concerns finding a shortest interconnecting network for a finite set of points in a metric space. A solution must be a tree, which is called a