Lecture 2.3: Outline
Lecture 2.3: Optimization, n-dim.
-  Nelder and Mead's downhill simplex
 -  Powell's method 
 -  Conjugate directions
 -  Using gradients: 
 
 - steepest descent
 
 - conjugate gradient methods
 
 
 -  Variable metric methods 
 
 Postscript of lecture
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