Reviews for Advances in Convex Analysis and Global Optimization, Vol. 54

The average rating for Advances in Convex Analysis and Global Optimization, Vol. 54 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-13 00:00:00 Barbara Whittam Getting Started with Mathematica, second edition 2005, 231pp. ISBN 0471478156, Dewey 510.285536 There is a 2009 third edition (224 + xiv pages, ISBN 978-0-470-45687-3, ). The authors' online documentation that was on their Boston College webpage as of Dec 2019, is gone as of June 2020. Quick intro to many of Mathematica's abilities. Much but not all of the syntax the book presents also works in the free online Wolfram Alpha, Examples are available for download at SEE ALSO THIS ONLINE DOCUMENTATION: and the 2017 An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language: Second edition: Chapter 26 is "Writing Mathematica Programs:" pp. 187-198. Do, For, While, Module, writing to and reading from a file. On page 28 (Chapter 5, Working with Equations), tells us Mathematica cannot solve x + Sin[x] = Cos[x]. That's no longer true.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-11-14 00:00:00 Karen Sullivan An exceptional textbook for computer science. This is not among the very popular titles on the subject, but one of the best.