Mokhtar S. Bazaraa and C.M. Shetty are Professors Emeriti at Georgia Institute of Technology. Hanif D. Sherali, the lead author, is a W. Thomas Rice Chaired Professor of Engineering in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University. He and Dr. Bazaraa are co-authors of a complementary best-selling book at Wiley on linear programming (LP). Solutions prepared by Joanna Leleno.

• Chapter 1: Introduction 11.1, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.10, 1.13Chapter 2 Convex Sets 42.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.7, 2.8, 2.12, 2.15, 2.21, 2.24, 2.31, 2.42, 2.45, 2.47, 2.49, 2.50, 2.51, 2.52, 2.53, 2.57Chapter 3: Convex Functions and Generalizations 153.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.9, 3,10, 3.11, 3.16, 3.18, 3.21, 3.22, 3.26, 3.27, 3.28, 3.31, 3.37, 3.39, 3.40, 3.41, 3.45, 3.48, 3.51, 3.54, 3.56, 3.61, 3.62, 3.63, 3.64, 3.65Chapter 4: The Fritz John and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker Optimality Conditions 294.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 4.10, 4.12, 4.15, 4.27, 4.28, 4.30, 4.31, 4.33, 4.37, 4.41, 4.43Chapter 5: Constraint Qualifications 465.1, 5.12, 5.13, 5.15, 5.20Chapter 6: Lagrangian Duality and Saddle Point Optimality Conditions 516.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.14, 6.15, 6.21, 6.23, 6.27, 6.29,Chapter 7: The Concept of an Algorithm 647.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 7.19Chapter 8: Unconstrained Optimization 698.10, 8.11, 8.12, 8.18, 8.19, 8.21, 8.23, 8.27, 8.28, 8.32, 8.35, 8.41, 8.47, 8.51, 8.52Chapter 9: Penalty and Barrier Functions 889.2, 9.7, 9.8, 9.12, 9.13, 9.14, 9.16, 9.19, 9.32Chapter 10: Methods of Feasible Directions 10710.3, 10.4, 10.9, 1.012, 10.19, 10.20, 10.25, 10.33, 10.36, 10.41, 10.44, 10.47, 10.52Chapter 11: Linear Complementary Problem, and Quadratic, Separable, Fractional, and Geometric Programing 13411.1, 11.5, 11.12, 11.18, 11.19, 11.22, 11.23, 11.24, 11.36, 11.41, 11.42, 11.47, 11.48, 11.50, 11.51, 11.52