chapters from the book

Chapter 1 - Background -Will only be referred to when needed
Chapter 2 - Optimization -General methods. Everything except the details about convergence rates (all methods)
Chapter 3 - Combinatorial optimization. -Everything except section 3.4.2
Chapter 4 - The EM algorithm -Section 4.1: All -Section 4.2: All but except 4.2.3.2 Chapter 6 - Monte Carlo methods -Not section 6.3.1.1
Chapter 7 - Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Chapter 9 - Bootstrap - Section 9.1 & Section 9.2