add 1D minimizer over a [a,b] range #522
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Currently we only have a wrapper over a multidimensional minimizer that uses a gradient descent. This is not the most efficient thing to use if all you want is to minimize a 1d function. For this we should have a wrapper over
gsl_min_fminimizer_set
. This functionality will be needed both in PRs #446 and #524.Idea for an implementation: create an overload for the
function that works only in 1D and takes