This textbook offers a concise yet rigorous introduction to calculus of variations and optimal control theory, and is a self-contained resource for graduate students in engineering, applied ...

The calculus of variations is one of the oldest subjects in mathematics, and it is very much alive and still evolving. Besides its mathematical importance and its links to other branches of ...

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ABSTRACT: In the current work, we study two infectious disease models and we use nonlinear optimization and optimal control theory which helps to find strategies towards transmission control and to ...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, the author studies the global stability of fractional-order fuzzy memristor neural networks with time delay and impulses. By applying the contraction mapping principle, the ...

AMONG the many ways in which the American Mathematical Society has endeavoured to popularise and develop the study of higher mathematics, not the least remarkable and useful is the practice of holding ...