Download or read book Traces and Emergence of Nonlinear Programming written by Giorgio Giorgi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains reproductions of the most important papers that gave birth to the first developments in nonlinear programming. Of particular interest is W. Karush's often quoted Master Thesis, which is published for the first time. The anthology includes an extensive preliminary chapter, where the editors trace out the history of mathematical programming, with special reference to linear and nonlinear programming.​