IMA Public Lectures : The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Idea of Optimization; Ivar Ekeland
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) Public Lecture Series
The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Idea of Optimization
7:00pm, March 4, 2008, Willey Hall 125
Ivar Ekeland (University of British Columbia)
Optimization, one of the most utilized branches of applied mathematics, is the study of problems which can be formulated as maximizing some quantity of interest by controlling related quantities. The idea of optimization is intimately connected with modern science. Pioneers like Galileo, Fermat, and Newton, were convinced that the world had been created by a benevolent god who had established the laws of nature as the most efficient way to achieve his purposes: in short, this is the best of all possible worlds, and it is the task of science to find out why and how. Gradually this view was overturned, leaving optimization as an important tool for the human-engineered world. More recently, game theory has come to replace optimization for de
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