Optimization Methods of Operations Research

Prerequisites: (CASMA 225 or CASMA 230 or CDSDS 122) and (CASMA 242 or CASMA 442 or ENGEK 103) or consent of instructor. - Optimization of linear functions: linear programming, simplex method; transportation, assignment, and network problems. Optimization of non-linear functions: unconstrained optima, constrained optima and Lagrange multipliers, Kuhn-Tucker conditions, calculus of variations, and Euler's equation.