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
3. Minimum with equality constraints. Symbolic calculus: Lagrange multipliers. Numerical calculus: penalty function
4. Minimum with inequality constraints. Symbolic and numerical calculus
5. Extreme of a linear function with linear constraints
Exercise 6.5.1
Exercise 6.5.2: the transportation problem