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Product Description: Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? This question has preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the answer...read more
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9780226199955 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 31, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds.

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Product Description: During the academic year 1995/96, I was invited by the Scuola Normale Superiore to give a series of lectures. The purpose of these notes is to make the underlying economic problems and the mathematical theory of exterior differential systems accessible to a larger number of people...read more
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9788876422515 | Springer Verlag, May 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: During the academic year 1995/96, I was invited by the Scuola Normale Superiore to give a series of lectures.

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Product Description: This introductory text offers simple presentations of the fundamentals of nonlinear analysis, with direct proofs and clear applications. Its full treatment ranges from smooth to nonsmooth functions, from convex to nonconvex variational problems, and from economics to mechanics...read more
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9780486453248 | Dover Pubns, November 17, 2006, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This introductory text offers simple presentations of the fundamentals of nonlinear analysis, with direct proofs and clear applications.

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Readers learn about the concept of infinity through the guests checking into the Hotel Infinity.
By Ivar Ekeland and John O'Brien (illustrator)
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9780812627442 | Cricket Books, April 28, 2006, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Readers learn about the concept of infinity through the guests checking into the Hotel Infinity.

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Product Description: No one working in duality should be without a copy of Convex Analysis and Variational Problems. This book contains different developments of infinite dimensional convex programming in the context of convex analysis, including duality, minmax and Lagrangians, and convexification of nonconvex optimization problems in the calculus of variations (infinite dimension)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780898714500 | Society for Industrial & Applied, November 1, 1999, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: No one working in duality should be without a copy of Convex Analysis and Variational Problems.

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Product Description: An exploration of nonlinear functional analysis and applications to differential equations. It addresses areas such as Hamiltonian systems, variational methods, duality in nonlinear analysis and applications, and degree and multiplicity results for a superlinear problem. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By A. Ambrosetti (editor), K. C. Chang (editor) and Ivar Ekeland (editor)
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9789810234706 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, June 1, 1998, cover price $88.00 | About this edition: An exploration of nonlinear functional analysis and applications to differential equations.

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Product Description: Ivar Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in his widely acclaimed Mathematics and the Unexpected, by drawing on rich literary sources, particularly the Norse saga of Saint Olaf, and such current topics as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics...read more
By Ivar Ekeland and Carol Volk (trans)
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9780226199917 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 22, 1993, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Ivar Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in his widely acclaimed Mathematics and the Unexpected, by drawing on rich literary sources, particularly the Norse saga of Saint Olaf, and such current topics as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics.

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9780226199924, titled "The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance" | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 1996, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Ivar Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in his widely acclaimed Mathematics and the Unexpected, by drawing on rich literary sources, particularly the Norse saga of Saint Olaf, and such current topics as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics.

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9780387506135 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 1990, cover price $136.00

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Product Description: "Not the least unexpected thing about Mathematics and the Unexpected is that a real mathematician should write not just a literate work, but a literary one."—Ian Stewart, New Scientist"In this brief, elegant treatise, assessable to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekelund explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics...read more
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9780226199894 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 30, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discusses the concept of time from a mathematical perspective, looks at the controversial catastrophe theory, and covers the shortcomings of Newtonian mathematics

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9780226199900 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 15, 1990), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: "Not the least unexpected thing about Mathematics and the Unexpected is that a real mathematician should write not just a literate work, but a literary one.

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9782040188634 | Centre De Recherches Mathematiques, December 1, 1989, cover price $32.00

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9789027725530 | D Reidel Pub Co, July 1, 1987, cover price $219.00

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Product Description: In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory. They seek to determine whether, when given an optimization problem consisting of minimizing a functional over some feasible set, an optimal solution—a minimizer—may be found.
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9780226199870 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1983, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory.

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9780226199887 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1983, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In this volume, Ekeland and Turnbull are mainly concerned with existence theory.

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9783764330323 | Birkhauser, January 1, 1982, cover price $49.50

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