This book focuses on the classic Steiner Problem and illustrates how results of the problem's development have generated the Theory of Minimal Networks, that is
The Steiner tree problem is one of the most important combinatorial optimization problems. It has a long history that can be traced back to the famous mathemati
The problem of "Shortest Connectivity", which is discussed here, has a long and convoluted history. Many scientists from many fields as well as laymen have step
This book deals with the new class of one-dimensional variational problems — the problems with branching solutions. Instead of extreme curves (mappings of a s
The aim in this graduate level text is to outline the key mathematical concepts that underpin these important questions in applied mathematics. These concepts i