Appendix: Some Notation, Definitions, and Mathematical Background

This chapter contains sections titled: A.1 General Notation, A.2 Norms, A.3 Maxima, Minima, Suprema, and Infima, A.4 Limits, A.5 Continuity, Closed Sets, and Compactness, A.6 Derivatives, Gradients, and Taylor's Theorem, A.7 Convexity, A.8 The Method of Lagrange Multipliers, A.9 Some Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem