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Re: help on critical points

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  • Subject: [mg4096] Re: [mg4037] help on critical points
  • From: Dennis M Schneider <dschneid at knox.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 02:17:38 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Tue, 28 May 1996, Jose Luis Lugo Goytia wrote:

> 
> Could you please give me some advise?
> 
> I'm trying to find the critical points of a function
> f:R^n -> R, I do the following:
> 
> In[1]:= gradiente[f_,var_]:=Outer[D,{f},var];
> 
> In[2]:= ceros[f_,vars_]:=  vars /. Solve[Numerator[Together[f]] ==
>         Table[0,{i,1,Length[vars]}],vars];
> 
> and for example
> 
> In[3]:= ceros[gradiente[x^2 y - y^2 -2 x y,{x,y}][[1]],{x,y}] //N
> 
> Out[3]= {{1., -0.5}, {0, 0}, {2., 0}}
> 
> but if I define the function
> 
> In[4]:= PuntosCriticos[f_,vars_]:= 
>                ceros[gradiente[f @@ vars,vars][[1]],vars] //N;

Remove f @@ and all is well. 

Dennis M. Schneider
Department of Mathematics
Knox College
Galesburg, IL  61401
(309) 341 7420


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