Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: MINIMIZATION OF FUNCTIONS OF ONE VARIABLE -- CHAPTER 1: Fermat theorem -- 1.1. LECTURE -- 1.1.1. Fermat theorem -- 1.1.2. Non-uniqueness of the solution of the stationary condition -- 1.1.3. Absence of function minimum points -- 1.1.4. Inapplicability of Fermat theorem -- 1.2. APPENDIX -- 1.2.1. Existence of function minimum -- 1.2.2. Uniqueness of function minimum -- 1.2.3. Tikhonov well-posedness of problems -- 1.2.4. Sufficient conditions of function minimum

1.2.5. Minimization of non-smooth functions -- 1.2.6. Minimization of functions of many variables -- CHAPTER 2: Additions -- 2.1. LECTURE -- 2.1.1. Variational inequality -- 2.1.2. Dependence of the solution on parameters -- 2.1.3. Approximate solving of the stationary condition -- 2.2. APPENDIX -- 2.2.1. Sufficiency of the minimum condition in the form of variational inequalities -- 2.2.2. Lagrange multiplier method -- 2.2.3. Penalty method -- 2.2.4. Gradient methods -- 2.2.5. Hadamard well-posedness of extremum problems -- 2.2.6. Approximate solutions to the function minimization problem

2.2.7. Minimization of functions of many variables -- PART II: OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS FOR SYSTEMS WITH A FREE FINITE STATE -- CHAPTER 3: Maximum principle -- 3.1. LECTURE -- 3.1.1. Statement of the optimal control problem -- 3.1.2. Maximum principle -- 3.1.3. Analytical solving of an optimal control problem -- 3.1.4. Approximate solving of an optimal control problem -- 3.2. APPENDIX -- 3.2.1. Existence of function minimum -- 3.2.2. Elimination method -- 3.2.3. Decoupling method -- 3.2.4. Algorithm Convergence for Example 3.3 -- 3.2.5. Vector optimal control problem

CHAPTER 4: Alternative methods -- 4.1. LECTURE -- 4.1.1. Iterative methods for solving an optimization problem -- 4.1.2. Variational inequality -- 4.1.3. Penalty method -- 4.1.4. Bellman equation -- 4.2. APPENDIX -- 4.2.1. Problem with a non-smooth functional -- 4.2.2. Non-equivalence of the variational inequality and maximum condition -- 4.2.3. Penalty method in the optimal control problem with constraints -- 4.2.4. Optimal control of a singular system -- 4.2.5. Optimal control of a singular system with constraints -- 4.2.6. Justification of the sufficient optimality condition

4.2.7. Relationship between dynamic programming and the maximum principle -- 4.2.8. Applicability of Bellman optimality principle -- CHAPTER 5: Uniqueness and sufficiency -- 5.1. LECTURE -- 5.1.1. Problem statement -- 5.1.2. Maximum principle -- 5.1.3. Analysis of optimality conditions -- 5.1.4. Uniqueness of the optimal control -- 5.1.5. Completion of the analysis of optimality conditions -- 5.2. APPENDIX -- 5.2.1. Invariance of the solution under sign change -- 5.2.2. Sufficiency of the maximum principle -- 5.2.3. Properties of non-optimal solutions of the maximum principle

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