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Applied math connections videos

This small mathematics collection crosses subjects rather than forming a missing chapter of one course. The clearest technical choices are an introduction to convex optimization and an overview of feedback control.

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Boyd’s course begins a sustained treatment of optimization problems. Brunton’s control overview introduces a different task: changing a system’s behavior through feedback. Choose optimization when your question is which feasible choice best meets an objective; choose control when the system evolves and observations inform later actions. Both routes benefit from linear algebra, and the original courses offer the continuity a miscellaneous collection cannot.

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