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The user's guide provides necessary information about what the user is supposed to know before using Minuit. The first steps as well the documentation of the API and a source code example can be found there ( ps, pdf )
The tutorial on function minimization is taken from a presentation given by Fred James at the CERN School of Computing 1972 in Pertisau, Austria. This tutorial corresponds to Part II of the Minuit User's Guide ( ps, pdf )
The html and postscript manual of the Fortran version of MINUIT.