ISBN10: 038713624X, ISBN13: 9780387136240, [publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag] Hardcover First Edition Library copy - library marks remain. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: XII, 362p. 23 illus. Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 0. Mathematical Preliminaries -- 0.1 Linear Algebra and Linear Programming -- 0.2 Graph Theory -- 1. Complexity, Oracles, and Numerical Computation -- 1.1 Complexity Theory: P and NP -- 1.2 Oracles -- 1.3 Approximation and Computation of Numbers -- 1.4 Pivoting and Related Procedures -- 2. Algorithmic Aspects of Convex Sets: Formulation of the Problems -- 2.1 Basic Algorithmic Problems for Convex Sets -- 2.2 Nondeterministic Decision Problems for Convex Sets -- 3. The Ellipsoid Method -- 3.1 Geometric Background and an Informal Description -- 3.2 The Central-Cut Ellipsoid Method -- 3.3 The Shallow-Cut Ellipsoid Method -- 4. Algorithms for Convex Bodies -- 4.1 Summary of Results -- 4.2 Optimization from Separation -- 4.3 Optimization from Membership -- 4.4 Equivalence of the Basic Problems -- 4.5 Some Negative Results -- 4.6 Further Algorithmic Problems for Convex Bodies -- 4.7 Operations on Convex Bodies -- 5. Diophantine Approximation and Basis Reduction -- 5.1 C ...
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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, Date: 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Library copy - library marks remain. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: XII, 362p. 23 illus. Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: MonographIncludes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 0. Mathematical Preliminaries -- 0.1 Linear Algebra and Linear Programming -- 0.2 Graph Theory -- 1. Complexity, Oracles, and Numerical Computation -- 1.1 Complexity Theory: P and NP -- 1.2 Oracles -- 1.3 Approximation and Computation of Numbers -- 1.4 Pivoting and Related Procedures -- 2. Algorithmic Aspects of Convex Sets: Formulation of the Problems -- 2.1 Basic Algorithmic Problems for Convex Sets -- 2.2 Nondeterministic Decision Problems for Convex Sets -- 3. The Ellipsoid Method -- 3.1 Geometric Background and an Informal Description -- 3.2 The Central-Cut Ellipsoid Method -- 3.3 The Shallow-Cut Ellipsoid Method -- 4. Algorithms for Convex Bodies -- 4.1 Summary of Results -- 4.2 Optimization from Separation -- 4.3 Optimization from Membership -- 4.4 Equivalence of the Basic Problems -- 4.5 Some Negative Results -- 4.6 Further Algorithmic Problems for Convex Bodies -- 4.7 Operations on Convex Bodies -- 5. Diophantine Approximation and Basis Reduction -- 5.1 Continued Fractions -- 5.2 Simultaneous Diophanti ...