This is the fourth in a series of books on statistical computing by James Gentle.
TOC:
Statistical Methods as Optimization Problems - Numerical Computations - Basic Definitions and Properties of Functions - Solution of Nonlinear Systems of Equations - Unconstrained Descent Methods in Dense Domains - Unconstrained Combinatorial Optimization, Other Direct Search Methods - Optimization Under Constraints - Optimization Under Constraints - Multiple Extrema and Multiple Objectives - Applications in Statistics - Software