The book is a benefit for graduate and postgraduate students in the areas of operations research, decision theory …, optimization theory, linear algebra, interval analysis, and fuzzy sets. The book will also be useful for the researchers in the … useful in applications such as automata theory, design of switching circuits, logic of binary relations, medical diagnosis …

-- Differential Calculus and Smooth Optimisation -- Singularity Theory and General Equilibria -- Topology and Social Choice. …In recent years, the usual optimization techniques, which have proved so useful in microeconomic theory, have been … methods, and, as a result, make mathematical economics, general equilibrium theory, and social choice theory more accessible. …