This outstanding resource systematically describes all basic equations and inequalities that form the necessary and sufficient optimality conditions of variational calculus and the theory of optimal control - addressing the latest developments in the investigation of optimality conditions, new classes of solutions, analytical and computation methods, and applications. Written by a world renowned scientist, Global Methods in Optimal Control Theory is an indispensable reference for pure and applied mathematicians; control, systems, aerospace, electrical and electronics, mechanical, and computer engineers; physicists; econometricians; statisticians; and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.