Optimization@MIT

Engineering Sciences 210 -- Mathematical Programming
Course Description: Introduction to basic optimization techniques. Linear programming: the simplex method and related algorithms, duality theory, interior-point methods. Unconstrained optimization, nonlinear programming, convexity.

Instructor: Donald G. M. Anderson
Prerequisites: Applied Mathematics 21a and 21b, or Mathematics 21a and 21b, and Applied Mathematics 120, or equivalent.

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