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Product Details
This book is a member of Springer'sUndergraduate Texts in Mathematics series.
Continued from the back cover: "Though the subject is sophisticated, the treatment is accessible to any student with a sound undergraduate mathematics background. Theory and applications are integrated with examples, particularly one special example (the rocket car) which relates all the abstract ideas to an understandable setting. The authors avoid excessive generalization, focusing rather on motivation and clear, fluid explanation.
Chapters
Introduction and Motivation
Controllability
Linear Autonomous Time-Optimal Control Problems
Existence Theorems for Optimal Control Problems
Necessary Conditions for Optimal Controls—The Pontryagin Maximum Principle [proof provided in an appendix]
The text concludes with a Mathematical Appendix, a Bibliography, and an Index.
