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 onesformulate open questions and conjectures together with extended commentaries and a large reference list at end of each chaptercomprehensive, systematically developed and entirely self-contained weiterlesen