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MATH 164Optimization

Mathematics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Not open for credit to students with credit for former Electrical Engineering 136. Fundamentals of optimization. Linear programming: basic solutions, simplex method, duality theory. Unconstrained optimization, Newton method for minimization. Nonlinear programming, optimality conditions for constrained problems. Additional topics from linear and nonlinear programming.

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Enforced requisites: courses 115A, 131A.

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  • MATH 115A
  • MATH 131A

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MATH 164

  • MATH 115ALinear Algebra
    • MATH 33ALinear Algebra and Applications
      • MATH 3BCalculus for Life Sciences Students1 more beneath
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variablesanother path to it
  • MATH 131AAnalysis
    • MATH 32BCalculus of Several Variables
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series1 more beneath
      • MATH 32ACalculus of Several Variables1 more beneath
    • MATH 33BDifferential Equations
      • MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Seriesanother path to it

2 direct requisites. Showing 11 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.

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MATH 164

  • MATH 156Machine Learning
    • MATH M148Experience of Data Science
    • STATS 147Data Technologies for Data Scientists
    • STATS M148Experience of Data Science
    • STATS C163Generative Data Science
    • STATS 184Societal Impacts of Data

1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 6 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.

  • Fall 2025
  • Winter 2026
  • Spring 2026
  • Summer 2026
  • Fall 2026
  • Winter 2027
  • Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.