SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Mar., 1976), pp. 145-154 (10 pages) A numerically stable form of an algorithm that is closely related to the work of Gill and Murray [5] and Conn [3 ...

The problem is considered of maximizing a function in a convex region. To solve this problem a new method is developed, to be called "method of feasible directions". It is a method of steep ascent.

This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...