Editing Slope (section)

==Other uses==
The concept of a slope or gradient is also used as a basis for developing other applications in mathematics:
* [[Gradient descent]], a first-order iterative optimization algorithm for finding the minimum of a function
* [[Gradient theorem]], theorem that a line integral through a gradient field can be evaluated by evaluating the original scalar field at the endpoints of the curve
* [[Gradient method]], an algorithm to solve problems with search directions defined by the gradient of the function at the current point
* [[Conjugate gradient method]], an algorithm for the numerical solution of particular systems of linear equations
* [[Nonlinear conjugate gradient method]], generalizes the conjugate gradient method to nonlinear optimization
* [[Stochastic gradient descent]], iterative method for optimizing a differentiable objective function