5 Welcome to the manual for [NLopt](index.md), our nonlinear optimization library. The manual is divided into a the following sections:
7 - [NLopt Introduction](NLopt_Introduction.md) — overview of the library and the problems that it solves
8 - [NLopt Installation](NLopt_Installation.md) — installation instructions
9 - [NLopt Tutorial](NLopt_Tutorial.md) — some simple examples in C, Fortran, and Octave/Matlab
10 - [NLopt Reference](NLopt_Reference.md) — reference manual, listing the NLopt API functions
11 - [NLopt Algorithms](NLopt_Algorithms.md) — the optimization algorithms available in NLopt (including literature citations and links to original source code, where available)
12 - [NLopt License and Copyright](NLopt_License_and_Copyright.md) — legal information
14 [Category:NLopt](index.md)