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
; ^  G% s5 g0 BSciences, edited by George L. Turin. Our aim was to publish short, accessible treatments of
( q9 C$ A/ o: J0 e8 O1 m* d: J* Mgraduate-level material in inexpensive books (the price of a book in the series was about five dollars).
& o9 w* A9 F6 s- \The effort was successful for several years. Van Nostrand Reinhold was then purchased by a
conglomerate which cancelled Notes on System Sciences because it was not sufficiently profitable.
Books have since become expensive. However, the World Wide Web has again made it possible to
publish cheaply.
! s7 l: }" s0 T4 k+ X$ TNotes on Optimization has been out of print for 20 years. However, several people have been
% W: x8 X% T* w- m0 @3 E7 T% a1 I5 E: Lusing it as a text or as a reference in a course. They have urged me to re-publish it. The idea of
1 A! Q0 y  Z. H8 Y% Xmaking it freely available over the Web was attractive because it reaffirmed the original aim. The
+ H. g% l0 @* ?only 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