Consider the optimization problem where A m × n , m ≥ n , and b m .

a. Show that the objective function for this problem is a quadratic function, and write down the gradient and Hessian of this quadratic.

b. Write down the fixed-step-size gradient algorithm for solving this optimization problem.

c. Suppose that Find the largest range of values for α such that the algorithm in part b converges to the solution of the problem.