1. Local and global minimum. Symbolic calculus

Exercise 6.1.1: minimum of a three-variable function
Exercise 6.1.2: minimum distance to 4 points


2. Local minimum. Numerical methods. Gradient, Newton’s and Golden Section methods

Exercise 6.2.1


3. Minimum with equality constraints. Symbolic calculus: Lagrange multipliers. Numerical calculus: penalty function

Exercise 6.3.1
Exercise 6.3.2


4. Minimum with inequality constraints. Symbolic and numerical calculus

Exercise 6.4.1
Exercise 6.4.2


5. Extreme of a linear function with linear constraints

Exercise 6.5.1
Exercise 6.5.2: the transportation problem