In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >My math skills are now so degraded I have difficulty reading about conic >programming using Nesterov's barrier functions etc etc. . . . You've got me curious. I haven't yet located an adequate introduction to the topic, so I'll ask *you* about the basics: do these (*semi*definite?) cones arise in financial with time the privileged dimension? Does "cone" here mean necessarily with a quadratic cross-section? If so, why is that more compelling than the simplexes of more traditional LP? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list