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- From: skg8286@tamuts.tamu.edu (Srihari Kumar Gangaraj)
- Subject: Optimisation without derivatives of function
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.202559.29383@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:25:59 GMT
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- I need help in finding the Global Minimum of a function of n variables
- f = f(x_i) i=1,n
- the function f may not be smooth , so I cannot use the standard methods .
- The Downhill Simplex Method (or Flexible Polyhedron) in Numerical methods
- can give only a minimum and not the Global minimum ( of all the minimum it
- picks the minimum neaarest to the guess value).
- Can someone tell if there is any book I can refer to , or better
- thing would be a fortran subroutine available at any of the ftp sites.
- Thank You.
- == Srihari
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- Srihari Gangaraj,
- srihari@aero15.tamu.edu
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