Covers the fundamentals of Nonlinear Programming and its applications in Optimal Control, exploring techniques, examples, optimality definitions, and necessary conditions.
Introduces linear programming basics, including optimization problems, cost functions, simplex algorithm, geometry of linear programs, extreme points, and degeneracy.
Explores KKT conditions in convex optimization, covering dual problems, logarithmic constraints, least squares, matrix functions, and suboptimality of covering ellipsoids.