diff --git a/Readme.md b/Readme.md index 5719a550c89a90e00190ee6624db3ba0474394ee..21af1780b705b8af30277f8aa3d6118e8df0fd4e 100644 --- a/Readme.md +++ b/Readme.md @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -# Exercise 3: Advanced differentiation, integration and root finding +# Exercise 4: Optimization techniques on scalar functions -In this exercise you will explore the concepts of numerical integration, differentiation and root finding. +In this exercise you will explore the concepts of gradient descent, root finding on the gradient and the conjugate gradient method. -In order to do so, you need to create your own project for the exercise 2 (prefixed with your idm username) in the [exercise group](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/exercise) as we did with the [cpp_introduction](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/cpp_introduction) and pulling [the template](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/exercise_3) into it. +In order to do so, you need to create your own project for the exercise 4 (prefixed with your idm username) in the [exercise group](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/exercise) as we did with the [cpp_introduction](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/cpp_introduction) and pulling [the template](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/exercise_4) into it. Please remember to create your own project first, then clone your own project and then pull the template afterwards, before pushing to your own project. ## Obtaining the instructions -In the template you will find a directory called `instructions` and in it the source for the instruction sheet `exercise_3.tex`. +In the template you will find a directory called `instructions` and in it the source for the instruction sheet `exercise_4.tex`. Produce the pdf of these instructions using the `pdflatex` command like we did for [exercise 1](https://gitlab.cs.fau.de/cp1_ws19/exercise_1). ## Proceeding with the exercise