内容简介
Engineersmustmakedecisionsregardingthedistributionofexpensiveresourcesinamannerthatwillbeeconomicallybeneficial.Thisproblemcanberealisticallyformulatedandlogicallyanalyzedwithoptimizationtheory.Thisbookshowsengineershowtouseoptimizationtheorytosolvecomplexproblems.Unifiesthelargefieldofoptimizationwithafewgeometricprinciples.Coversfunctionalanalysiswithaminimumofmathematics.Containsproblemsthatrelatetotheapplicationsinthebook.