👉 Learn how to determine the extrema, the intervals of increasing/decreasing, and the concavity of a function from its graph. The extrema of a function are the points where the graph changes from ...

This course discusses basic convex analysis (convex sets, functions, and optimization problems), optimization theory (linear, quadratic, semidefinite, and geometric programming; optimality conditions ...

Financial executive pay is a convex function of profits if recipients get a greater increment in pay when returns are high as opposed to moderate, compared with when returns are moderate as opposed to ...