An Introduction to Optimization - Chong, Edwin K. P.; Zak, Stanislaw H. (New York John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996)
Methods of Proof and Some Notation Real Vectors Spaces and Matrices Transformations Concepts from Geometry Elements of Differential Calculus Basics of Unconstrained Optimization One-Dimensional Search Methods Gradient Methods Newton's Method Conjugate Methods Quasi-Newton Methods Solving Ax=b Unconstrained Optimization and Feedforward Neural Networks Genetic Algorithms Linear Programming Simplex Method Duality Non-Simplex Methods Problems with Equality Constraints Problems with Inequality Constraints Convex Optimization Problems Algorithms for Constrained Optimization
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