This module (in combination with Engineering Analysis 2A) provides the essential grounding in mathematical analysis techniques for engineering students. This module ensures that all students have a suitable level of analytical skills for subsequent engineering modules.
This module (in combination with Engineering Analysis 2B) provides the essential grounding in mathematical analysis techniques for engineering students. This module ensures that all students have a suitable level of analytical skills for subsequent engineering modules.
MA-282
Game Theory and Optimization
Game theory is about strategies for making decisions, in cases where there are two or more players. The complication is that the possible choices for the other players may influence a particular player's choice of strategy. Economics has many examples of the application of game theory, but it has also been applied to areas as diverse as global politics (e.g. the Cuban missile crisis) and evolutionary biology (e.g. the hawks and doves game).
Optimisation is about finding the optimum strategy (e.g. maximising profit for a company) by maximising or minimising a function in a specified domain. Again it has applications in economics, but it has also been used in engineering design (e.g. genetic algorithms were used to design the superconducting magnets in the CERN particle accelerator) and molecular biology (modelling shapes of molecules by minimising energy).