Optimization: Insights and Applications (Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics Book 34) by Jan Brinkhuis (PDF)

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This self-contained textbook is an informal introduction to optimization through the use of numerous illustrations and applications. The focus is on analytically solving optimization problems with a finite number of continuous variables. In addition, the authors provide introductions to classical and modern numerical methods of optimization and to dynamic optimization. The book’s overarching point is that most problems may be solved by the direct application of the theorems of Fermat, Lagrange, and Weierstrass. The authors show how the intuition for each of the theoretical results can be supported by simple geometric figures. They include numerous applications through the use of varied classical and practical problems. Even experts may find some of these applications truly surprising. A basic mathematical knowledge is sufficient to understand the topics covered in this book. More advanced readers, even experts, will be surprised to see how all main results can be grounded on the Fermat-Lagrange theorem. The book can be used for courses on continuous optimization, from introductory to advanced, for any field for which optimization is relevant.

User’s Reviews

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⭐Badly organized and formatted. Too much pretentious chat and the terrible type setting means it’s very hard to distinguish important points from the chaff as you go along and almost impossible to find them when referring to the book quickly.

⭐The book is filled with interesting examples and proofs, especially of classical linear algebra results using optimization techniques, but tries to span too many possible audiences. Too textbook-like for a casual read, but not quite a textbook, and too unorganized for a pure reference. Worth flipping through to see if anything stands out to you, but probably not worth having on your shelf. The person most likely to enjoy this book is a prospective or first-year economics grad student interested in the math for its own sake.

⭐The Kindle version of this book is of extremely poor quality. It looks like trash.In 2013, paying customers who fork over almost $70 (USD) for the electronic version of this book deserve more than a crappy HTML-ized version of the printed text where the equations do not scale properly or even line up with the baseline of surrounding text.By flipping through the free sample provided above and comparing it with a copy of the print edition, one can quickly determine just how badly the publisher has wrecked the typesetting of the formulas by converting the text from native PDF to their own proprietary Kindle format. Only certain formats (PDF being foremost among them) can faithfully preserve all of the elegance and beauty that mathematical typesetting systems like LaTeX can provide.By refusing to purchase the electronic version, customers can send a strong message to the publisher that they will not accept an inferior product in order to accommodate their desire for digital rights management.The “Kindle Replica” format is a potential solution to this problem as the latter is nothing more than a DRM-wrapped version of PDF.Question to the publisher: why are you not offering a Kindle Replica version of this text, because if you did, I would purchase it immediately.

⭐Nice book – I liked it.Mostly static optimization. Look elsewhere for dynamics, particularly Hamiltonian/Pontryagin etc.

⭐Very good book get an overview of optimization techniques with some fundamentals and history.

⭐Als ich das Angebot gesehen habe, der Zustand war “Gut”. Heute habe ich das Buch bekommen, ist einfach perfekt konserviert. Der Verkäufer ist einfach super! Ich bin sehr froh!A good easy to read book

⭐good

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