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Modern optimization methods of optimization originated in the seventeenth century with the discovery of the calculus. Until the advent of the digital computer, however, analytic solutions and fast-converging iterative methods were the only practical means of performing optimization. The introduction and proliferation of computing technologies widened both the scope and the number of optimization problems.
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Lockett, A.J. (2020). Review of Optimization Methods. In: General-Purpose Optimization Through Information Maximization. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62007-6_2
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