A Geometric Approach to Saddle Points of Surfaces

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Authors Sudhir R. Ghorpade, Balmohan V. Limaye

Publication date 8 December 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5400

zbMATH Keywords

critical pointdiscriminant testsaddle point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Functions of several variables (26B99) Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Classical differential geometry (53A99) Functions of several variables (educational aspects) (97I60)

Abstract: We outline an alternative approach to the geometric notion of a saddle point for real-valued functions of two variables. It is argued that this is more natural compared to the usual treatment of this topic in standard texts on Calculus.

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