Useful links on Convex Optimization

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1. Courses and MOOCs

• Introduction to Convex Optimization MITOCW by Prof. Stephen Boyd
• Convex Analysis and Optimization MITOCW by Prof. Dimitri Bertsekas
• Convex Optimization MOOC from Stanford Online
• Convex Optimization at CMU Spring 2015

2. Books

• Convex Optimization – Boyd and Vandenberghe - downloadable book
• Convex Optimization Theory - by Dimitri P. Bertsekas
• Theory of Convex Optimization for Machine Learning - downloadable book by Sebastien Bubeck

3. Ben Recht's talk on Optimization at Simons Institute
4. The Zen of Gradient Descent - a blog post that contains useful information on convex optimization