A Tribute to Dimitri Bertsekas - by Ben Recht - arg min

My teacher and friend Dimitri Bertsekas passed away earlier this month.

My teacher and friend Dimitri Bertsekas passed away earlier this month. I just learned about this over the weekend, and I’m still processing my thoughts. Dimitri was a hero of mine for so many reasons. I took my first and only class on optimization with him, and I was riveted by his clean presentation of convex analysis and mastery of the overhead projector. He took a liking to me, and I made it a point to find him for a chat whenever I’d visit MIT. He was always generous with his time and excited to exchange ideas, but he wouldn’t hesitate to harshly scold me when I’d present some result…

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