ABSTRACT
The desire for optimality (perfection) is inherent in humans. The search for extremes inspires engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and the rest of the human race to excel. Human development is motivated by
faith and the zeal to excel. Faith is very fuzzy and fuzziness implies unpredictability. The goal of optimization theory is the creation of reliable methods to catch the extremum of a function by an intelligent arrangement of its evaluations (measurements). Optimization is vitally important for modern scientific investigations, engineering, and planning that incorporate optimization at every step of the complicated decision-making process.
