DSC 211Introduction to Optimization

4 units · DSC · UC San Diego

Continuity and differentiability of a function of several variables, gradient vector, Hessian matrices, Taylor approximation, fundamentals of optimization, Lagrange multipliers, convexity, gradient descent.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “DSC 210. Restricted to students within the DS75 and DS76 major.”

What it opens up

Courses that list DSC 211 as a prerequisite (2)

DSC 243 Advanced Optimization
DSC 251 Machine Learning in Control