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By Panos M. Pardalos, Weili Wu, Ding-Zhu Du. Optimization is of central importance in all sciences. Nature inherently seeks optimal solutions. For example, light travels through the "shortest" path and the folded state of a protein corresponds to the structure with the "minimum" potential energy.
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