Comment by f5129cac

4 hours ago

Thank you for writing this article! It really helped me clear up my understanding of why you care about min and max eigenvalues of a Hessian matrix, something I've been confused about for some time. I have https://fedemagnani.github.io/math/2025/07/04/fenchel.html queued up to read next (convex conjugates being another topic that confuse the hell out of me).

Haha that's great and excited to hear feedback, thank you so much! In these articles I deliberately want to keep a casual tone, just for grasping the concept, so probably a more rigorous material is very important as a follow-up