Subject: Can Maxima solve this optimization problem?
From: Paul Smith
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:48:23 +0000
On Jan 10, 2008 8:48 PM, Andrej Vodopivec <andrej.vodopivec at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that maxima is not capable of solving a linearly constrained
> program unless it is a linear program (or if the constrains are all
> equalities).
Thanks, Andrej, for the information.
Paul
> On Jan 8, 2008 1:38 PM, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, Andrej, for your clever solution. But suppose now that instead of
> >
> > integral of x(t) with t from 0 to 1,
> >
> > you have the following objective function:
> >
> > integral of sin( x(t) ) with t from 0 to 1.
> >
> > Is Maxima still able to solve the maximization problem?
>