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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

MATH 440 - Introductionto Optimization Theory

3 Credits

Prerequisite(s): MATH 228 and MATH 232. This course offers an introduction to convex analysis, unconstrained optimization in n-dimensional Euclidean space, convex programming and duality. Analysis of two nonlinear algorithms will be studied: Newton’s method and the method of steepest descent.