Geometry of Linear Matrix Inequalities A Course in Convexity and Real Algebraic Geometry with a View Towards Optimization

"This book is part of Birkhäuser 'Compact Textbooks in Mathematics' series, which aims for concise books that are tailored in size and scope to a single semester course at a late undergraduate or early graduate student level. This book fits that bill precisely. ... There are two appendices, one on real algebraic geometry and one on convexity, which provide background. With these, the book is in principle self-contained … ." (Tamon Stephen, Mathematical Reviews, March, 2025)