MATH402 INTRODUCTION TO OPTIMIZATION
| Course Code: |
2360402 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
6.0 |
| Department: |
Mathematics |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall Semesters. |
Course Content
The importance of optimization, basic definition and facts on convex analysis. Theory of linear programming and convex prog-ramming, simplex method and its applications, nonlinear programming, search methods, basic ideas of classical variational calculus, optimal control theory. Pontraygin`s maximum principle and dynamic programming, linear theory of optimal control.
