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Survey of the Theory of Extremal Problems

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In the paper some general principles of the theory of extremum are considered, and basing of these principles we give a survey of fundamental results on the foundation of the theory, conditions of extrema and existence of solutions.

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Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 26B10, 26B25, 34A55, 49-02, 49J15, 49K15, 90C25

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Tikhomirov, V. (2016). Survey of the Theory of Extremal Problems. In: Kusuoka, S., Maruyama, T. (eds) Advances in Mathematical Economics Volume 20. Advances in Mathematical Economics, vol 20. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0476-6_6

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