Find all minima, maxima and saddles
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- Subject: [mg117608] Find all minima, maxima and saddles
- From: "J.Frazer" <j.frazer at sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:29:51 -0500 (EST)
Hello, I imagine this is a well known problem but so far I can't spot an answer. The problem is simply to find all minima, maxima and saddle points in some finite region of a function in D variables where D< 10 or so. There is nothing particularly awkward about the functions I have in mind, nor do I expect vast numbers of maxima and minima, 10s or maybe 100s, not thousands. Is there a simple way of doing this? Cheers, Jonny