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The problem central to this chapter is easy to state: given a function F(v), find the point \(\mathbf{v}_{m} \in \mathbb{R}^{n}\) where F achieves its minimum value.
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Holmes, M.H. (2016). Optimization. In: Introduction to Scientific Computing and Data Analysis. Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30256-0_8
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