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The grid search and golden section methods for finding the maximum (or minimum) of a function of a single variable. The method of steepest descent and the rank-one method for functions of several variables and the penalty function, the Lagrangian and Lagrange multipliers for constrained problems.
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Woodford, C., Phillips, C. (2012). Optimisation. In: Numerical Methods with Worked Examples: Matlab Edition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1366-6_8
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