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Yuan, Ya-Xiang was born on January 20, 1960 in Zixin, Hunan, China. Son of Chao-fan and Zhu-qing (Liao) Yuan.
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Optimization Theory and Methods can be used as a textbook for an optimization course for graduates and senior undergraduates. It is the result of the author's teaching and research over the past decade. It describes optimization theory and several powerful methods. For most methods, the book discusses an idea’s motivation, studies the derivation, establishes the global and local convergence, describes algorithmic steps, and discusses the numerical performance.
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Yuan, Ya-Xiang was born on January 20, 1960 in Zixin, Hunan, China. Son of Chao-fan and Zhu-qing (Liao) Yuan.
Bachelor of Science, Xiangtan U., Hunan, 1981; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Cambridge, England, 1986; certified Executive Development Center, University of Illinois, 1995.
Rutherford research fellow, Fitzwilliam College, U. Cambridge, England, 1985-1988; professor computer center, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, 1988-1995; associate director laboratory science engineering computing, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, 1991-1996; director Institute Computer Mathematics Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, since 1995; director laboratory science engineering computing, Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, since 1996. Visiting professor U. Colorado, Boulder, 1990-1991, Northwestern University, 1991, U. Würzburg (Alexander von Humboldt fellow), 1992-1993, Hong Kong Baptist U.,1994, Federal U. Parana, Brazil, 1994. Honorary professor Xi'an Jiaotong U., 1995, Xiangtan U., 1995, Tsinghua U., 1996, Hunan U., 1996.
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President Chinese Students and Scholars Association, Cambridge, 1984-1987. Executive member All-China Youth Federation, Beijing, since 1990. Vice director Youth Subcommittee Western Returned Students, Beijing, since 1996.
Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Programming Society, Chinese Computational Mathematics Society (county member since 1990), Chinese Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics (county member).
Married Hui-juan Wang, June 9, 1984. 1child, Yuan.