TNK049 · 6 credits · Basic level (G2F) · Matematik, Tillämpad matematik
Optimization
Active · next start HT 2026
26%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 18 Mar 2026 · 19 students
33%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 165 students
Unusually hard in 2025/26
21% passed the ordinary exam in 2025/26 (42 students), against 37% on average in earlier years (123 students).
Part of 1 programme
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
33% passed · 165 students
- 26%19
- 17%23
- 25%8
- 38%16
- 15%13
- 27%22
- 62%13
- 31%16
- 42%12
- 52%23
Re-exams
46% passed · 37 students
- 43%14
- 14%7
- 78%9
- 43%7
- Pass the re-exam: 46% (37 students), compared with 33% (165 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 7% (202 students)
Show small sittings (1)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 25%4
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
- U
Main rounds
100% passed · 74 students
- 100%12
- 100%15
- 100%22
- 100%13
- 100%12
Later rounds
100% passed · 6 students
- 100%6
- Pass a later round: 100% (6 students), compared with 100% (74 students) on the ordinary exam
Show small sittings (3)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
- 0%4
- 100%2
- 100%2
About the course
Aim
The course provides basic insights in optimization, especially optimization of linear and nonlinear (continuous) problems and problems with a network structure. After completing the course, the student should be able to:
Content
- Linear programming: Modeling, basic mathematical theory and geometry, the simplex method, sensitivity analysis, duality, optimality conditions.
- Nonlinear optimization: Modeling, convexity, unconstrained optimization, linearly constrained optimization, optimality conditions.
- Network optimization: Modeling, tree problems, path problems, versions of the minimum cost flow problem and the simplex method applied to problems with network structure.
- Examiner
- Stefan Engevall
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Matematik, Tillämpad matematik