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Title: | The Usefulness of Lagrange Multipliers in Everyday Life |
Keywords: | Lagrange Multipliers |
Issue Date: | 11-Nov-2015 |
Publisher: | Moi University Press |
Series/Report no.: | ;10 th Annual International Conference |
Abstract: | Lagrange multipliers are a very useful technique in multivariable calculus, but all too often they are poorly taught and poorly understood. With luck, this overview will help to make the concept and its applications a bit clearer.One of the most common problems in calculus is that of finding maxima or minima (in general, “extrema”) of function, but it is often difficult to find a closed form for the function being extremized. Such difficulties often arise when one wishes to maximize or minimize a function subject to fixed outside conditions or constraints. The method of Lagrange multipliers is a powerful tool for solving this class of problems without the need to explicitly solve the conditions and use them to eliminate extra variables. |
URI: | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1946 |
Appears in Collections: | School of Biological & Physical Sciences |
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