Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Prerequisites:
Applications:
Production, Finance/Economics,
Marketing and others.
Example 1.1
A Production-Inventory Model.
Example 1.2
An Advertising Model.
Calculus of Variations.
Brachistochrone problem: path of least time
Newton, Leibniz, Bernoulli brothers, Jacobi, Bolza.
Pontryagin et al.(1958): Maximum Principle.
If
Vector Norm
bang function
sat function
impulse control
Saddle Point
: En x Em E1, a point
point of (x,y), if
Note also that
En x Em is called a saddle