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This textbook provides a thorough treatment of standard methods such as linear and quadratic programming, Newton-like methods and the conjugate gradient method. The theoretical aspects of the subject include a treatment of optimality conditions and the significance of Lagrange multipliers.

Table of Contents
UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION.

Structure of Methods.

Newton-like Methods.

Conjugate Direction Methods.

Restricted Step Methods.

Sums of Squares and Nonlinear Equations.

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION.

Linear Programming.

The Theory of Constrained Optimization.

Quadratic Programming.

General Linearly Constrained Optimization.

Nonlinear Programming.

Other Optimization Problems.

Non-Smooth Optimization.

References.

Subject Index.

Practical Methods of Optimization

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    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
    Publication Date: 23/05/2000
    ISBN13: 9780471494638, 978-0471494638
    ISBN10: 0471494631
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This textbook provides a thorough treatment of standard methods such as linear and quadratic programming, Newton-like methods and the conjugate gradient method. The theoretical aspects of the subject include a treatment of optimality conditions and the significance of Lagrange multipliers.

    Table of Contents
    UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION.

    Structure of Methods.

    Newton-like Methods.

    Conjugate Direction Methods.

    Restricted Step Methods.

    Sums of Squares and Nonlinear Equations.

    CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION.

    Linear Programming.

    The Theory of Constrained Optimization.

    Quadratic Programming.

    General Linearly Constrained Optimization.

    Nonlinear Programming.

    Other Optimization Problems.

    Non-Smooth Optimization.

    References.

    Subject Index.

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