“Real World” Mathematical Optimization is a branch of applied mathematics which is useful in many different fields. Here are a few examples:

Optimization is concerned with finding the design point that minimizes (or maximizes)anobjectivefunction.Knowinghowthevalueofafunctionchanges …

My objective has been to present, in a compact and unified manner, the main concepts and techniques of mathematical programming and optimal control to students having diverse …

Why optimization? In some sense, all engineering design is optimization: choosing design parameters to improve some objective Much of data analysis is also optimization: extracting …

Optimization problems over function spaces have been studied since the 17th century, and they have been very influential not only in the discovery of variational principles but in the …

This is a set of lecture notes for Math 555{Penn State's graduate Numerical Optimization course. Since I use these notes while I teach, there may be typographical errors that I noticed in class, …

In an optimization mindset, there is an objective you want to either maximize or minimize, and there may be constraints within which you need to operate. There are also specific quantities, …