Springer Optimization and Its Applications: Optimization Theory and Methods: Nonlinear Programming (Hardcover)

Wenyu Sun; YA-Xiang Yuan
9780387249759
0-387-24975-3

Optimization Theory and Methods can be used as a textbook for an optimization course for graduates and senior undergraduates. It is the result of the author's teaching and research over the past decade..

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It describes optimization theory and several powerful methods. For most methods, the book discusses an idea's motivation, studies the derivation, establishes the global and local convergence, describes algorithmic steps, and discusses the numerical performance.