Editorial: Special issue dedicated to the 70th birthday of Professor Yurii Nesterov

This special issue on Recent Trends on Numerical Optimization and Their Applications is edited in honor of Professor Yurii Nesterov, a world-leading researcher in convex optimization, on the occasion of his 70th birthday for his substantial contribution to convex and numerical optimization and it real-world applications and his scientific leadership.In 1977, Yurii obtained his master degree at Moscow State University.In 1984, Yurii obtained his Ph.D. degree at Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow.His PhD advisor was Boris Polyak, a great world leader in optimization.From 1977 to 1992, he was a researcher at the Central Economic Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of