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March 19, 2025 • Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years. It follows a "Prairie Witch" in ...

a lightweight header-only C++17 library of numerical optimization methods for (un-)constrained nonlinear functions and expression templates ...

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