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WESTERGAARD, JEVONS AND AN EARLY CONTRIBUTION TO CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION *
Author(s) -
LOGAN BOB,
SHIEH YEUNGNAN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
the manchester school
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9957
pISSN - 1463-6786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9957.1990.tb00406.x
Subject(s) - maxima and minima , simple (philosophy) , mathematical economics , economics , differential calculus , maxima , differential (mechanical device) , keynesian economics , neoclassical economics , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology , history , physics , art history , pure mathematics , mathematical analysis , performance art , thermodynamics
Two or three correspondents, especially Herr Harald Westergaard of Copenhagen, have pointed out that a little manipulation of the symbols, in accordance with the simple rules of the differential calculus, would often give results which I have laboriously argued out. The whole question is one of maxima and minima, the mathematical conditions of which are familiar to mathematicians. (W. S. Jevons, The Theory of Political Economy (TPE2) , 1879, p. xiii).