Stories about maximums and minimums

The history of the methods of finding the least and largest values ​​is traced. The solutions of many wonderful problems for the maximum and minimum belonging to the great mathematicians of past eras - Euclid, Archimedes, Heron, Tartal, Farm, Kepler, Bernoulli, Newton, etc. are described in detail. laid the grounds for modern analysis. The connections of extreme tasks with the problems of natural science, technology and economics are explained, it is told about the basic principles of the modern theory of extreme tasks, and on the basis of the theory of extremums, solutions to many problems of algebra, geometry, analysis are given. For high school students, teachers, students, teachers.
3rd edition