Convex Optimization

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