Convex

Convex, meaning "curving out" or "extending outward" (compare concave), may refer to:

Economics and finance

• Convexity in economics
• Convexity (finance), second derivatives in financial modeling generally
• Bond convexity, a measure of the sensitivity of the duration of a bond to changes in interest rates

Pure mathematics

• Convex set, in mathematics
• Convex function, in mathematics
• Convex polygon, a polygon in which no line segment between two points on the boundary ever goes outside the polygon.
• Convex polytope

Other uses

• Convex Computer, a company that produced a number of vector supercomputers

See also

• Convex lens, in optics
• List of convexity topics
• Non-convexity (economics), violations of the convexity assumptions of elementary economics
• Concave (disambiguation)
• Obtuse angle