g e y w o r d s F u z z y numbers, Convexity, Continuity, Convex fuzzy mappings, Linear ordering, Fuzzy Weirstrass theorem, Fuzzy optimization. 1. I N T R O D U C T I O N Let R n denote the n-dimensional Eucl idean space. The suppor t , supp(#) , of a fuzzy set # : R ~ I = [0, 1] is defined as supp(/~) = {x • R n I #(x) > 0}. A fuzzy set # : R n --~ I is called fuzzy convex if #(Ax + (1 A)y) _>...