This is one of the 100+ free recipes of the IPython Cookbook, Second Edition, by Cyrille Rossant, a guide to numerical computing and data science in the Jupyter Notebook. The ebook and printed book are available for purchase at Packt Publishing.
▶ Text on GitHub with a CC-BY-NC-ND license
▶ Code on GitHub with a MIT license
Chapter 9 : Numerical Optimization
The recipe is available in the book, to be purchased on Packt.