Branches concerned with choosing the best option under constraints and with steering systems toward a goal. An entry belongs here when its cited source describes the minimisation or maximisation of a quantity, the planning and scheduling methods of operations research, the calculus of variations, or the design of feedback laws that keep a system stable. It does not belong here when the branch is about the cost of computing an answer or about transmitting data, which belong to the information and complexity group. The group gathers the mathematics of decisions and design that is used throughout industry, economics and engineering.
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Wikipedia: Mathematical Optimization
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Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled optimisation) or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives.
Operations Research (Wikipedia)
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Operations research (British English: operational research), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a branch of applied mathematics that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve management and decision-making.
Calculus of Variations (Wikipedia)
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The calculus of variations (or variational calculus) is a field of mathematical analysis
Control Theory (Wikipedia)
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Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems.
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