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This chapter reviews and introduces some concepts which are important throughout this book. It starts in Section 2.1 by introducing some notational conventions. The chapter proceeds by discussing some elementary properties of convex sets in Section 2.2 and of convex functions in Section 2.3. Finally it ends with Section 2.4 where some concepts introduced in the previous sections are generalized.
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dos Santos Gromicho, J.A. (1998). Elements of Convexity. In: Quasiconvex Optimization and Location Theory. Applied Optimization, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3326-5_2
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