CBE 20258 - Lecture Notes - March 27, 2018

Announcements

Class notes

• A scanned pdf of the lecture notes for today is given here.

Examples:

Today we looked at three methods for doing non-linear optimization in multidimensional problems. An example demonstrating the method of steepest descent and the simplex method (fminsearch) is given here.

Reading

• The class notes
• K&M, chapter 8