This book offers a balanced presentation of Optimization, focusing on theory and including algorithms and real-world examples. Detailed examples and counter-examples are provided - with exercises, solutions and helpful hints, and Matlab/Maple supplements.
Dr. Wilhelm Forst is a professor in the Department of Numerical Analysis at the University of Ulm, Germany.
Dr. Dieter Hoffmann is a professor at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
Drs. Forst and Hoffman previously co-authored two German language books for Springer-Verlag: Funktionentheorie explore with Maple (2002) and Ordinary Differential Equations (2005).