Download or read book Convex Analysis written by R. Tyrrell Rockafellar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-12 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics treat systems of inequalities; Lagrange multipliers; minimax theorems and duality; structures of convex sets and functions; and more. Available for the first time in paperback, Rockafellar's classic study has firmly established a vital area not only for pure mathematics but also for applications to economics and engineering. Readers will find sound knowledge of linear algebra and introductory real analysis a major benefit to the assimilation of this work.