Formal methods are a suite of mathematically grounded techniques that underpin the design, specification, and verification of programming languages and software systems.

The paper gives a comparison of Beale's method for quadratic programming and the Simplex Method for quadratic programming as developed by Dantzig and Van de Panne and Whinston. After summary ...

Formal methods offer a mathematically rigorous framework for the specification, development and verification of programming languages and software systems.