Arthur David Snider, PhD., is a Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical Engineering at the University of South Florida. He has 50+ years of experience in modeling physical systems in the areas of heat transfer, electromagnetics, microwave circuits, and orbital mechanics, as well as the mathematical areas of numerical analysis, signal processing, differential equations, and optimization.

A Preliminary Note.- Fibonnacci Search.- Linear Programming.- Nonlinear Programming in One Dimension.- Nonlinear Multidimensional Optimization.- Constrained Optimization.