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OPTIMIZATION
Edited by G.L. Nemhauser, A.H.G. Rinnooy Kan and M.J. Todd

CHAPTER 1
A View of Unconstrained Optimization
L.E. Dennis Jr. and R.B. Schnabel

1. Preliminaries*

2. Newton's method

3. Derivative approximations

4. Globally convergent methods

5. Non-Taylor series methods

6. Some current research directions

References

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