Books By Richard Cottle, Mukund Narain Thapa - Author

Richard W. Cottle is a Professor Emeritus from the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from Harvard University and the Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, all three in mathematics. Under the supervision of George B. Dantzig, Cottle wrote a dissertation in which the linear and nonlinear complementarity problems were introduced. Upon completion of his doctoral studies in Berkeley, Cottle became a member of the technical staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey. Two years later, he joined the operations research faculty at Stanford University where he remained until his retirement in 2005.

For nearly 40 years at Stanford, Cottle taught at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels in a variety of optimization courses including linear and nonlinear programming, complementarity and equilibrium programming, and matrix theory. (The present volume is an outgr