Evaluating Derivatives 2/e

Andreas Griewank is a former senior scientist of Argonne National Laboratory and authored the first edition of this book in 2000. He holds a Ph.D. from the Australian National University and is currently Deputy Director of the Institute of Mathematics at Humboldt University Berlin and a member of the DFG Research Center Matheon, Mathematics for Key Technologies. His main research interests are nonlinear optimization and scientific computing. Andrea Walther studied mathematics and economy at the University of Bayreuth. She holds a doctorate degree from the Technische Universitaet Dresden. Since 2003 Andrea Walther has been Juniorprofessor for the analysis and optimization of computer models at the Technische Universitaet Dresden. Her main research interests are scientific computing and nonlinear optimization.

Rules Preface Prologue Mathematical Symbols Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Framework for Evaluating Functions Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Forward and Reverse Chapter 4: Memory Issues and Complexity Bounds Chapter 5: Repeating and Extending Reverse Chapter 6: Implementation and Software Chapter 7: Sparse Forward and Reverse Chapter 8: Exploiting Sparsity by Compression Chapter 9: Going beyond Forward and Reverse Chapter 10: Jacobian and Hessian Accumulation Chapter 11: Observations on Efficiency Chapter 12: Reversal Schedules and Checkpointing Chapter 13: Taylor and Tensor Coefficients Chapter 14: Differentiation without Differentiability Chapter 15: Implicit and Iterative Differentiation Epilogue List of Figures List of Tables Assumptions and Definitions Propositions, Corollaries, and Lemmas Bibliography Index