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Brent, Richard Peirce was born on April 20, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Oscar Reading Pierce and Nancy Elizbeth Myrnong (Hawthorn) Brent.
( This outstanding text for graduate students and researc...)
This outstanding text for graduate students and researchers proposes improvements to existing algorithms, extends their related mathematical theories, and offers details on new algorithms for approximating local and global minima. None of the algorithms requires an evaluation of derivatives; all depend entirely on sequential function evaluation, a highly practical scenario in the frequent event of difficult-to-evaluate derivatives. Topics include the use of successive interpolation for finding simple zeros of a function and its derivatives; an algorithm with guaranteed convergence for finding a minimum of a function of one variation; global minimization given an upper bound on the second derivative; and a new algorithm for minimizing a function of several variables without calculating derivatives. Many numerical examples augment the text, along with a complete analysis of rate of convergence for most algorithms and error bounds that allow for the effect of rounding errors.
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professor of computer sciences
Brent, Richard Peirce was born on April 20, 1946 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Son of Oscar Reading Pierce and Nancy Elizbeth Myrnong (Hawthorn) Brent.
Bachelor of Science with honors, Monash University, Melbourne, 1968. Doctor of Science, Monagh University, Melbourne, 1981. Master of Science, Stanford University, 1970.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1971.
Scientist research department International Business Machines Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York, 1971-1972. Research fellow Australian National University, Canberra, 1972-1978, professor computer science, 1978-1998. Professor computing science Oxford University, since 1998.
Forsythe Memorial lecturer Stanford (California) University, 1990.
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Author: Algorithms for Minimization Without Derivatives, 1973. Editor Advances in Computer Science, since 1987. Contributor technical articles to professional journals.
Fellow Australian Academy of Sciences.
Music, chess, astronomy, swimming, walking.
Married Erin Margaret O'Connor, September 13, 1969. Children: Geoffrey Peter, Rohan James.