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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Announcing the October 27, 2014, publication by SIAM of:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications with MATLAB, by Amir Beck<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2014 / xii + 282 pages / Softcover / 978-1-611973-64-8 / List Price $89.00 / SIAM/MOS Member Price $62.30 / Order Code MO19<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This book provides the foundations of the theory of nonlinear optimization as well as some related algorithms and presents a variety of applications from diverse areas of applied sciences.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The author combines three pillars of optimization — theoretical and algorithmic foundation, familiarity with various applications, and the ability to apply the theory and algorithms on actual problems — and rigorously
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Readers will find more than 170 theoretical, algorithmic, and numerical exercises that deepen and enhance the reader's understanding of the topics. The author includes several subjects not typically found in optimization
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">optimality conditions in sparsity-constrained optimization, hidden convexity, and total least squares.
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