Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pattern search (PS) refers to a family of numerical optimization methods that do not require the gradient of the problem to be optimized and PS can hence be used on functions that are not continuous or differentiable. Such optimization methods are also known as direct-search, derivative-free, or black-box methods.The name, pattern search, was coined by Hooke and Jeeves . An early and simple PS variant is attributed to Fermi and Metropolis when they worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory as described by Davidon.

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