maximum principle is one of the most useful and best known tools of study. Solutions of a differential inequality in a domain D satisfy the maximum principle...

The principle of maximum entropy states that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge about a system is the one...

Pontryagin's maximum principle is used in optimal control theory to find the best possible control for taking a dynamical system from one state to another...

In mathematics, the maximum modulus principle in complex analysis states that if f {\displaystyle f} is a holomorphic function, then the modulus | f |...

Bauer's maximum principle is the following theorem in mathematical optimization: Any function that is convex and continuous, and defined on a set that...

The Hopf maximum principle is a maximum principle in the theory of second order elliptic partial differential equations and has been described as the "classic...

The maximum power principle or Lotka's principle has been proposed as the fourth principle of energetics in open system thermodynamics. According to American...

In statistics, maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is a method of estimating the parameters of an assumed probability distribution, given some observed...

In the history of science, the principle of maximum work was a postulate concerning the relationship between chemical reactions, heat evolution, and the...

holomorphic functions. They are (real) analytic; they have a maximum principle and a mean-value principle; a theorem of removal of singularities as well as a Liouville...