"A paperback edition of this successful textbook for final year undergraduate mathematicians and control engineering students, this book contains exercises and many worked examples, with complete solutions and hints making it ideal not only as a class textbook but also for individual study. The intorduction to optimal control begins by considering the problem of minimizing a function of many variables, before moving on to the main subject: the optimal control of systems governed by ordinary differential equations."@en
""This book provides the core material for undergraduate courses on optimal control, the modern development that has grown out of the calculus of variations and classical optimization theory.[...] The introduction to optimal control begins by considering the problem of minimizing a function of many variables. It moves from there, via an exposition of the calculus of variations, to the main subject which is the optimal control of systems governed by ordinary differential equations. This approach enables the student to see the essential unity of these three important areas of mathematics, and laso to allow optimal control and the Pontryagin Maximum Principle to be placed in a proper context. Each chapter has a section of exercises and many worked examples ; complete solutions and hints are provided, making the book ideal for individual study as well as for class exercises." (source : 4ème de couverture)."

Optimal Control and the Calculus of Variations