James F. MINUIT Tutorial. Function Minimization

Monography.
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the.
1972 CERN Computing and Data Processing School, Pertisau, Austria, 10-24 September, 1972 (CERN 72-21).
CERN, Geneva, 2004. — 41 p.One-dimensional minimization.
Stepping methods in many variables.
Gradient methods.
Specialized techniques.
Local and global minima.
Some sample problems for minimization routines.