Which Books Cover Elementary Optimization Problems?

[maNoFchangE]

I am in search of (elementary) books which contains subject on the optimization problem. I'm not an electrical engineering student though so I don't know if that subject is typically taught in undergrad or grad level. But in case there is undergrad book that meets that condition, I would prefer such. What I'm interested in is particularly the convex optimization problem, among the three main optimization problems as far as I know.

Thanks

 

[soarce]

I would start with wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_optimization, as for undergraduate material have a look at lecture notes posted on internet.

 

[dfan]

The canonical book on convex optimization is Convex Optimization by Boyd and Vandenberghe, downloadable for free. Boyd also has http://stanford.edu/class/ee364a/videos.html and slides from his Stanford class, which follows the book. It's a graduate-level book and class.

 

[Modest Learner]

Linear Programming and Network Flows by Bazaraa, Jarvis, and Sherali is a nice book.

Other than that, you can try Operations Research by H.A. Taha.