{"title":"Minimax Theorem Revisited","authors":"M. I. Schlesinger, V. Krygin","doi":"10.1080/00029890.2022.2144085","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The article presents a new proof of the minimax theorem. Its novelty is that it uses only elementary concepts within the scope of obligatory mathematical education of engineers. The minimax theorem results in numerous applications and many of them are far from being obvious. Hence the use of such applications has to be based not only on belief in the minimax theorem, but on a transparent understanding of it without need of more complicated concepts. The audience for this article is mathematicians who lecture on convex analysis to nonmathematicians.","PeriodicalId":7761,"journal":{"name":"American Mathematical Monthly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"American Mathematical Monthly","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2022.2144085","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The article presents a new proof of the minimax theorem. Its novelty is that it uses only elementary concepts within the scope of obligatory mathematical education of engineers. The minimax theorem results in numerous applications and many of them are far from being obvious. Hence the use of such applications has to be based not only on belief in the minimax theorem, but on a transparent understanding of it without need of more complicated concepts. The audience for this article is mathematicians who lecture on convex analysis to nonmathematicians.
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