finding Intersection using scipy.optimize.minimize

Question

I'm trying to find x of intersection between two simple math functions using only scipy.optimize.minimize I found the point successfully using (fsolve)

fsolve(lambda t: f1(t) - f2(t), x0)

but I'm limited to using only minimize and I couldn't find any solution, any idea?

Answer 1

from scipy.optimize import minimize

minimize(lambda t: (f1(t) - f2(t))**2, x0)

should work. For a detailed explanation why, see here for instance.