first monograph entirely devoted to the rapidly developing area of second-order variational analysis and its applications to optimization, equilibria, stability, control, mechanics, and social-economic modeling. includes recent results contains a substantial number of exercises at various levels of difficulties with solution hints for more challenging ones formulate open questions and conjectures together with extended commentaries and a large reference list at end of each chapter comprehensive, systematically developed and entirely self-contained

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Boris S. Mordukhovich is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Wayne State University. He has more than 500 publications including several monographs. Among his best known achievements are the introduction and development of powerful constructions of generalized differentiation and their applications to broad classes of problems in variational analysis, optimization, equilibrium, control, economics, engineering, and other fields. Mordukhovich is a SIAM Fellow, an AMS Fellow, and a recipient of many international awards and honors including Doctor Honoris Causa degrees from six universities over the world. He is a Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics. His research has been supported by continued grants from the National Science Foundations and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.