Re: Re: Local extrema of a function of two variables
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- Subject: [mg90035] Re: [mg90017] Re: Local extrema of a function of two variables
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:14:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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That's nice: I didn't know about the "trick" of getting the entire
Hessian matrix in one simple expression D[f[x, y], {{x, y}, 2}],
although of course it's documented at tutorial/Differentiation.
It's interesting that Mathematica (at least version 6) includes a System
symbol Hessian...
?Hessian
System`Hessian
Attributes[Hessian] = {Protected}
...but apparently no associated definition and no reference page in the
Documentation Center.
Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote:
>
> ...Now,we compute the Hessian matrix, *)
>
> hessian = D[f[x, y], {{x, y}, 2}]
>
> {{-12 x^2, 4}, {4, -12 y^2}}
>
> (* and take its determinant: *)
>
> d = hessian // Det
>
> -16 + 144 x^2 y^2
> ...
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- Re: Local extrema of a function of two variables
- From: "Jean-Marc Gulliet" <jeanmarc.gulliet@gmail.com>
- Re: Local extrema of a function of two variables