Nonlinear Equations And Optimisation, Volume 4 (numerical Analysis 2000)
by L.T. Watson /
2001 / English / PDF
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In one of the papers in this collection, the remark that "nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum of minimum does not appear" is attributed to no less an authority than Euler. Simplifying the syntax a little, we might paraphrase this as Everything is an optimization problem.
