"You ever hunt werewolf, Whitney?" It is 1903 and that startling question is only one of many posed to young zoologist Gerard Whitney by eccentric Oklahoma cattle rancher Harold B. Tucker. When hired by Tucker he expects only to study wildlife on the ranch, but instead finds himself caught up in Tucker's true passion, searching the world for legendary creatures. And the thing Tucker wants most? To find a living dinosaur As they embark on one wild and dangerous adventure after another, Whitney is sure Tucker will never succeed. But what they eventually discover exceeds both men's wildest...

Techniques of optimization are applied in many problems in economics, automatic control, engineering, etc. and a wealth of literature is devoted to this subject. The first computer applications involved linear programming problems with simp- le structure and comparatively uncomplicated nonlinear pro- blems: These could be solved readily with the computational power of existing machines, more than 20 years ago. Problems of increasing size and nonlinear complexity made it necessa- ry to develop a complete new arsenal of methods for obtai- ning numerical results in a reasonable time. The...

Techniques of optimization are applied in many problems in economics, automatic control, engineering, etc. and a wealth of literature is devoted to this subject. The first computer applications involved linear programming problems with simp- le structure and comparatively uncomplicated nonlinear pro- blems: These could be solved readily with the computational power of existing machines, more than 20 years ago. Problems of increasing size and nonlinear complexity made it necessa- ry to develop a complete new arsenal of methods for obtai- ning numerical results in a reasonable time. The...