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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Optimization for engineering systems</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Pike, Ralph W.</namePart>
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      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Van Nostrand Reinhold</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1986</dateIssued>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xiv, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Introduction (Page-1), Classical Theory of Maxima and Minima (Page-10), Geometric Programming (Page-58), Linear Programming (Page-80), Single Variable Search Techniques (Page-160), Multivariable Optimization Procedures (Page-203), Dynamic Programming (Page-303), Calculus of Variations (Page-365).</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ralph W. Pike.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Engineering</topic>
    <topic>Mathematical models</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mathematical optimization</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">620,PIK</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0442275811</identifier>
  <identifier type="lccn">85029466</identifier>
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