Lecture Notes on Optimization

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Notes on Optimization was published in 1971 as part of the Van Nostrand Reinhold Notes on System
0 x/ \! Z  D9 l. l% E! N1 }Sciences, edited by George L. Turin. Our aim was to publish short, accessible treatments of
* n' C3 p6 H" {graduate-level material in inexpensive books (the price of a book in the series was about five dollars).
4 m/ p8 y0 f8 e( ~The effort was successful for several years. Van Nostrand Reinhold was then purchased by a
# ]0 B' t  {1 n% Z# Q4 rconglomerate which cancelled Notes on System Sciences because it was not sufficiently profitable.
$ I- W7 S& a& k) O4 Q8 {: VBooks have since become expensive. However, the World Wide Web has again made it possible to
' O4 v9 |  w; s2 Epublish cheaply.
Notes on Optimization has been out of print for 20 years. However, several people have been
using it as a text or as a reference in a course. They have urged me to re-publish it. The idea of
making it freely available over the Web was attractive because it reaffirmed the original aim. The
0 D: G( G& S* t1 H4 ?7 |1 ~  ^  Monly obstacle was to retype the manuscript in LaTex. I thank Kate Klohe for doing just that.
I would appreciate knowing if you find any mistakes in the book, or if you have suggestions for