Category talk:Optimization algorithms and methods

Methods vs algorithms
What's the difference between this category and ? These names are synonyms, so there should be only one. -- X7q (talk) 14:16, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Agreed. And the subcategories are not so useful. Dividing into, say, convex and non-convex subcategories would be much more useful. I have listed this article in the proposed category merging page. Lavaka (talk) 14:57, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

Why are root finding methods separate from these categories? I found this confusing. Chogg (talk) 20:12, 29 July 2013 (UTC)