- Look up
convex or
convexity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Convex or
convexity may
refer to:
Convex lens, in
optics Convex set,
containing the whole...
-
crescent shape, is not
convex. The
boundary of a
convex set in the
plane is
always a
convex curve. The
intersection of all the
convex sets that
contain a...
- In mathematics, a real-valued
function is
called convex if the line
segment between any two
distinct points on the
graph of the
function lies
above or...
- In geometry, a
convex polygon is a
polygon that is the
boundary of a
convex set. This
means that the line
segment between two
points of the
polygon is...
- Look up plano-
convex in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Plano-
convex may
refer to: Plano-
convex lens, in
optics Plano-
convex, a type of
mudbrick used...
- reflecting. The
convex polyhedron is well-defined with
several equivalent standard definitions, one of
which is a
polyhedron that is a
convex set, or the...
- In geometry, the
convex hull,
convex envelope or
convex closure of a
shape is the
smallest convex set that
contains it. The
convex hull may be defined...
-
mathematical optimization, the
convex conjugate of a
function is a
generalization of the
Legendre transformation which applies to non-
convex functions. It is also...
- the
Latin name of the
lentil (a seed of a
lentil plant),
because a double-
convex lens is lentil-shaped. The
lentil also
gives its name to a
geometric figure...
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Convex optimization is a
subfield of
mathematical optimization that
studies the
problem of
minimizing convex functions over
convex sets (or, equivalently...
