This chapter discusses, in more detail, the tools of optimization that were introduced in Chapter 1. It begins with Lagrange multipliers, which see more use in optimization than any other device. It moves on then to discussions of the Kuhn–Tucker conditions and calculus of variations. It includes methods for solving optimization problems numerically such as sequential linear programming, which is the workhorse of this text.
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Spillers, W.R., MacBain, K.M. (2009). Some Tools of Optimization. In: Structural Optimization. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-95865-1_2
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