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find out the max ormin of a function

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  • Subject: [mg41334] find out the max ormin of a function
  • From: "sabrina" <hxs61 at po.cwru.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 03:58:09 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi, all:
I just started to learn Mathematica:
I have one function like this: y=x^2+2x+1
How can I find the minimum of this funtion in a range of [-2, 2]? Or put it
in a simple way:
if I know y'=2x+2, how can I use Mathematica to find the minimam? Thanks a
lot

Sabrina




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