I saw this phrase a lot many years ago, and now at RG I witness again the phrase "the model and its algorithm". It always refers to the notion that for every model there is a unique methodology to be used for its solution. I was often subjected to that phrase during in my PhD studies, and here at RG 25 or so years later I witness it yet again, every now and then. Let's agree first that the phrase is badly informed: it is not the case that for every optimization model there is one unique methodology for it. But where does it come from?
It also reminds me of the days as a PhD student, when I gave a talk on something mathematically generic, like a description of a theory, and was asked what application I would present. "In math there does not necessarily need to be one", I said, but some colleagues I could never bring to understand my position in science: theory for theory's own sake is never wrong.
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