by Christos H. Papadimitriou, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Umesh V. Vazirani
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Suggested foundations for optimisation and numerical methods. Specialist prerequisites vary by resource.
Read the linear algebra used to define a numerical problem.
Identify the objective, constraints and conditions for an optimum.
Understand identifiability and fitted model parameters.
Separate model error from unstable numerical computation.