The (winter/97) final will have 5 questions. There will be at least one question that deals directly with a question from the homework problems. In addition, there will be at least one question that deals directly with a problem from the text. The questions: 1 on convexity (functions and sets) 1 on Lagrangian duality 1 on barrier and penalty functions 1 on KKT conditions 1 on unconstrained optimization, i.e. steepest descent, Newton, Gauss-Newton methods