Description
Book SynopsisThis paperback edition of the popular 1999 title presents a series of approaches to the challenges faced by analysts who must find the best way to accomplish particular objectives, usually with the added complication of constraints on the available choices. Award-winning educator Ronald E.
Trade ReviewThe author's extensive teaching experience is reflected in hisupbeat, relaxed writing style and preesntation. (Short BookReviews, V21, No1, April 2001)
"...accessible to people who have neither formal mathematicaltraining nor any background in optimization...this text could beuseful for an introductory class on optimization..." (SIAM Review,Vol. 43, No. 3)
Table of ContentsFOUNDATIONS: LINEAR METHODS.
Matrix Algebra.
Systems of Linear Equations.
FOUNDATIONS: NONLINEAR METHODS.
Unconstrained Maximization and Minimization.
Constrained Maximization and Minimization.
APPLICATIONS: ITERATIVE METHODS FOR NONLINEAR PROBLEMS.
Solving Nonlinear Equations.
Solving Unconstrained Maximization and Minimization Problems.
APPLICATIONS: CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION IN LINEAR MODELS.
Linear Programming: Fundamentals.
Linear Programming: Extensions.
Linear Programming: Interior Point Methods.
APPLICATIONS: CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION IN NONLINEAR MODELS.
Nonlinear Programming: Fundamentals.
Nonlinear Programming: Duality and Computational Methods.
Problems.
References.
