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Mathematics of Computation
Mathematics of Computation
ISSN 1088-6842(e) ISSN 0025-5718(p)

     

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Review information:

Journal: Math. Comp. 79, 1867-1869
DOI:
10.1090/S0025-5718-10-02379-3
PII:
S 0025-5718(10)02379-3
Posted: February 12, 2010
Copyright of article: Copyright 2010, American Mathematical Society
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Introduction to derivative-free optimization, by Andrew R. Conn, Katya Scheinberg and Luis N. Vicente
Additional book information: SIAM, Philadelphia, PA, 2009, xii+277 pp., (softcover) US$73.00, ISBN 978-0-898716-68-9
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 65K05, 65K10

Reviewed by: J. L. Nazareth
Affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
E-mail address: nazareth@amath.washington.edu

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J.L. Nazareth, On algorithmic science and engineering: an emerging core discipline of computing, SIAM News, 39 (2006), No. 2, pp. 2-4.

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J.A. Nelder and R. Mead, A simplex method for function minimization, Computer J., 7 (1965), pp. 308-313.

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W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolsky, W.T. Vetterling, and B.P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 1992. MR 1196230 (93i:65001a)



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