1. Introduction -- 2. Control Problem -- Notation and definitions, motivation of later results -- 3. Railroad Train Example -- Motivation of a “bang-bang principle,” the time optimal and minimum fuel problems -- 4. Controllability -- Restricted and unrestricted control, the controllability...

I. Equivalent Axiomatic Definitions and Elementary Properties of Matroids -- §1.1. The first rank-axiomatic definition of a matroid -- §1.2. The independence-axiomatic definition of a matroid -- §1.3. The second rank-axiomatic definition of a matroid -- §1.4. The circuit-axiomatic definition...

Editor’s preface -- Lecture 1. Introduction -- Lecture 2. Topological linear spaces, convex sets, weak topologies -- Lecture 3. Hahn-Banach Theorem -- Lecture 4. Supporting hyperplanes and extremal points -- Lecture 5. Cones, dual cones -- Lecture 6. Necessary extremum conditions...

I: Introduction -- 1.1 A Perspective -- 1.2 Earlier Work -- II: Mathematical Formulation of the Bulk Queuing Problem -- 2.1 A Class of Markov Recurrence Relations -- 2.2 The Abstract Formalism -- III: A Numerical Approach to Waiting Line Problems -- 3.1 Numerical Methods in Queuing Theory -- 3.2...