Background
Koo, Delia Z.F. was born on May 14, 1921 in Hankow, Wuhan, China. Arrived in the United States, 1941. Daughter of Wht and Hk (Zung) Wei.
(This book attempts to present the concepts which underlie...)
This book attempts to present the concepts which underlie the various optimization procedures which are commonly used. It is written primarily for those scientists such as economists, operations researchers, and en gineers whose main tools of analysis involve optimization techniques and who possess a (not very sharp) knowledge of one or one-and-a-half year's calculus through partial differentiation and Taylor's theorem and some acquaintance with elementary vector and matrix terminology. Such a scientist is frequently confronted with expressions such as Lagrange multi pliers, first-and second-order conditions, linear programming and activity analysis, duality, the Kuhn-Tucker conditions, and, more recently, dy namic programming and optimal control. He or she uses or needs to use these optimization techniques, and would like to feel more comfortable with them through better understanding of their underlying mathematical concepts, but has no immediate use for a formal theorem-proof treatment which quickly abstracts to a general case of n variables and uses a style and terminology that are discouraging to people who are not mathematics majors. The emphasis of this book is on clarity and plausibility. Through examples which are worked out step by step in detail, I hope to illustrate some tools which will be useful to scientists when they apply optimization techniques to their problems. Most of the chapters may be read independently of each other-with the exception of Chapter 6, which depends on Chapter 5. For instance, the reader will find little or no difficulty in reading Chapter 8 without having read the previous chapters.
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Koo, Delia Z.F. was born on May 14, 1921 in Hankow, Wuhan, China. Arrived in the United States, 1941. Daughter of Wht and Hk (Zung) Wei.
Bachelor, St. John's University, Shanghai, China, 1941. AM, Harvard University, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1947.
Master of Arts, Michigan State University, 1954. HHD (honorary), Michigan State University, 2002.
Teacher high school French, St. Mary's Hall, Shanghai, China, 1940-1941;
teacher Chinese languages, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1951-1952;
mathematics teaching assistant, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1954-1955;
instructor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1955-1956, 57-58;
lecturer mathematics, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1956-1957;
assistant professor, associate professor, professor mathematics, Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti, 1965-1985;
professor emeritus, Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti, since 1985. Adjunct Professor Business College branch Virginia Polytechnic U., Washington, 1981. Volunteer English language teacher, volunteer coordinator for international students Michigan State University, East Lansing, since 1984.
Volunteer language teacher Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1990.
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Member Mathematics Association American (secretary-treasurer Michigan section 1974-1977, editor newsletter 1974-1977, vice chair, chair, 1978-1980, governor 1980-1983, distinguished service award 1988, meritorious service award 1992). F C.
Married Anthony Koo, June 6, 1943. Children: Victoria Hitchins, Margery Bussey, Emily Koo.