Practical Methods of Optimization
暫譯: 實用的優化方法

現在以經濟實惠的平裝本發行！這本經過多次驗證的教科書專注於實用的優化方法。詳細討論了線性和二次規劃、牛頓法和梯度法，並探討了優化條件及拉格朗日乘數的重要性。還描述和分析了一系列現代非線性方法，包括BFGS和SPQ。 (08/00)

About the author Professor Roger Fletcher completed his MA at the University of Cambridge in 1960 and his PhD at the University of Leeds in 1963. He was a lecturer at the University of Leeds from 1963 to 1969, then Principal Scientific Officer at AERE Harwell until 1973. He then joined the University of Dundee where he is Professor of Optimization and holds the Baxter Chair of Mathematics. In 1997 he was awarded the prestigious Dantzig Prize for fundamental contributions to algorithms for nonlinear optimization, awarded jointly by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Mathematical Programming Society. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.

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羅傑·弗萊徹教授於1960年在劍橋大學完成碩士學位，並於1963年在利茲大學獲得博士學位。他於1963年至1969年擔任利茲大學的講師，隨後在AERE Harwell擔任首席科學官，直到1973年。他之後加入鄧迪大學，擔任優化教授並擔任巴克斯特數學講座教授。1997年，他因對非線性優化算法的基本貢獻而獲得享有盛譽的丹齊格獎，該獎項由工業與應用數學學會和數學規劃學會共同頒發。他是愛丁堡皇家學會和數學及其應用學會的院士。