Jean-Charles.Gilbert

Welcome to the English-language Wikipedia! Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 13:28, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Nonlinear programming textbook with Bonnans et alia

Dear Professor Gilbert,

WP does not like in-article links to external resources, e.g. your homepage at INRIA. Such references are best gathered at the end of the article in an "external resources" section. If INRIA has a popular description of nonlinear programming in English, then that would be an excellent candidate for inclusion as an external reference.

I Wikified and updated the reference to your textbook:

• Bonnans, J. Frédéric; Gilbert, J. Charles; Lemaréchal, Claude; Sagastizábal, Claudia A. (2006). Numerical optimization: Theoretical and practical aspects. Universitext (Second revised ed. of translation of 1997 French ed.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag. pp. xiv+490. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-35447-5. ISBN 3-540-35445-X. MR 2265882.

I updated the citations found under a search of "Bonnans, nonlinear". However, this textbook would be a useful supplement to other articles on optimization (theory and methods), but I lack the time to update other articles. In my humble opinion (IMHO), the benefit of your adding the reference outweighs the conflict of interest (COI) concern, because of this book's quality and its authors' reputations. Your editing under your own name shows good faith and transparency. I would be delighted to discuss COI concerns raised by any other editors, with such editors, were they to appear.

Best regards, Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 13:32, 8 November 2010 (UTC) 14:17, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

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Dear Kiefer.Wolfowitz,

As a WP beginner (my second day ...), I don't know whether I use the appropriate way to reply to your message on my talk page. Remove this, if this is inappropriate.

Well, this is just to thank you for your interventions in updating the references to the BGLS book (Bonnans et al). As for the other part of your message, it is still rather obscure to me. "IHMO" and "COI concern" sound very exotic and intrigating. Hope to become familiar with these terms and to be able to act according to their meaning in the future. Thank you again.

Best regards, Jean-Charles.Gilbert (talk) 21:08, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

Dear editor Jean-Charles Gilbert,

It is a pleasure to hear from you, especially because I am obviously a fan of your textbook and admittedly of your work on CG methods with Nocedal—although professionally my interests lie more on the kinky side of optimization!

You should feel free to comment on user's talk pages. As you suggested, every user does have the right to remove messages from his talk page. You may also reply to comments directly on your "talk page", below the other's message, if you prefer; such concatenated replies enable third-party readers most easily to follow the conversation. (Either method of replying works fine for both of us, because we have low volumes of conversations.)

I am sorry for mis-spelling the acronym for IMHO ("In my humble opinion") and obscurely encrypting "Conflict of Interest" as "COI". I wrote IMHO to warn that Wikipedia guidelines may be more stringent than my humble opinion: Other editors with research publications in the mathematical sciences include editors David Eppstein, Boris Tsirelson or Michael Hardy; their examples of editing and avoiding conflicts of interests (or weighing possible conflicts-of-interests against improving Wikipedia) may interest you.

Best regards,

Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 21:40, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

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