TY - BOOK AU - Chong, Edwin K. P. AU - Zak, Stanislaw H. TI - An Introduction to Optimization SN - 9780471089490 U1 - 519.3 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Mathematics KW - Mechanical Engineering N1 - 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 ER -