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Nonlinear programming

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The study of optimization is not an easy task. Several books, different levels, some books only addressing theory, some books emphasizing algorithms and a few addressing modelling.

When you read scientific papers, eventually you will convince yourself of the necessity to know some more "advanced" results (Lagrange, Duality and even non-differentiable optimization) that are not well explained on introductory operational research books.

Up to date, with solutions avaliable for download at Bertsekas' homepage.

This book explains the duality theory very well. It also covers various numerical methods. People who never have background in optimization can start the subject from this book. The exercises were collected from recent papers, so they are common problems that you might encounter in your research.

I don't know why this book has so much popularity so far. It is
NOT conscise, it is NOT well typesetted and the overall style is very confusing! I would recommend another book Convex Optimization by Boyd

If you are an operations researcher or someone interested in the NLP topic this is a must-buy book. Rigorous, extremely coherent and well written.

I am suprised that equality constraint simple QP can be solved by projection method. The description of minimize pointwise maximize function problem also startles me.

Very good book. I received it from Amazon in very good condition and well within time. I'll buy again from amazon.

Bertsekas has always been one of my favorite authors. Nonlinear Programming is yet another of his masterpieces. An extremely well written book. Strongly Recommended.