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An introduction to optimization

Edwin K.P. Chong and Stanislaw H. Żak

(Wiley-Interscience series in discrete mathematics and optimization)

Wiley, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-399) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This introduction to optimization methods and theory is aimed at the senior undergraduate and beginning graduate. Supplemented with worked examples to illustrate both theory and algorithms, it describes such topics as unconstrained optimization, linear programming and constrained optimization.

Table of Contents

  • Partial table of contents:
  • MATHEMATICAL REVIEW
  • Methods of Proof and Some Notation
  • Real Vector Spaces and Matrices
  • Transformations
  • Concepts from Geometry
  • UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION
  • One-Dimensional Search Methods
  • Gradient Methods
  • Newton's Method
  • Conjugate Direction Methods
  • Quasi-Newton Methods
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • LINEAR PROGRAMMING
  • Introduction to Linear Programming
  • The Simplex Method
  • Duality
  • Non-Simplex Methods
  • NONLINEAR CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION
  • Problems with Inequality Constraints
  • Convex Optimization Problems
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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Details
  • NCID
    BA26657933
  • ISBN
    • 0471089494
  • LCCN
    95006111
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 409 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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