This book offers a concise introduction to mathematical inequalities for
graduate students and researchers in the fields of engineering and
applied mathematics. It begins by reviewing essential facts from algebra
and calculus and proceeds with a presentation of the central
inequalities of applied analysis, illustrating a wide variety of
practical applications. The text provides a gentle introduction to
abstract spaces, such as metric, normed and inner product spaces. It
also provides full coverage of the central inequalities of applied
analysis, such as Young's inequality, the inequality of the means,
Hölder's inequality, Minkowski's inequality, the Cauchy-Schwarz
inequality, Chebyshev's inequality, Jensen's inequality and the triangle
inequality.
The second edition features extended coverage of applications, including
continuum mechanics and interval analysis. It also includes many
additional examples and exercises with hints and full solutions that may
appeal to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as
researchers in engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry or any other
quantitative science.