Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

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I ran across the following peculiar issue with scipy optimize using Nelder Mead with bounds . I believe a code snippet will be more useful here: Now we know that minimum is indeed when x = 0 . If we ...