Optimization by Vector Space Methods

Unifies the field of optimization with a few geometric principles The number of books that can legitimately be called classics in their fields is small indeed, but David Luenberger's OPtimization by Vector Space Methods certainly qualifies. Not only does Luenberger clearly demonstrate that a large segment of the field of optimization can be effectively unified by a few geometric principles of linear vector space theory, but his methods have found applications quite removed from the engineering problems to which they were first applied. Nearly 30 years after its initial publication, athis book…