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...Lecture notes on numerical optimization miguel a carreira perpin an eecs university of california merced december these are for one semester graduate course optimisation given by prof at the largely based book jorge nocedal and stephen j wright springer nd ed with some additions may be used educational non commercial purposes c introduction goal describe basic concepts main state art algorithms continuous optimiza tion problem minf x s t ci i e equality constraints scalar rn inequality variables vector f objective function feasible region set points satisfying all maxf min ex g transportation lp px capacityoffactory ij b demand shop nonnegative production shipping cost amount product shipped from factory to lsq parametric model line polynomial neural net data iterative build sequence that converges solution needs good initial point often prior knowledge focus many variable problems but will illustrate in d desiderata robustness perform well wide variety their class any starting eciency...