The following are essential (and recommended):
1. On Root Finding
From the quiz point of view, you need not go through all the pdfs in detail (there is a bit of overlap) as long as you are familiar with the following topics:
- Newton-Raphson: For anyone looking for short-cuts to just pass, here is the wikipedia link (NOT recommended); better idea would be to google and select an expert (preferably academic) source
- Secant Method: wikipedia link ; google
- Bi-section Method: wikipedia link ; google
- Lagrange Multipliers: wikipedia link ; google
- Kuhn-Tucker Conditions: wikipedia link ; google
- The basic notion of Quadratic Programming: wikipedia link ; google
Btw, feel free to use any other source, online or otherwise, that you may find to your liking as long as you cover the topics.
The following is optional:
3. On Optimization in MATLAB
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