Optimization.mw

• About using null
• Local min/max
• Absolute extrema on bounded domains
  • Step 1: Critical points in the interior
  • Step 2: Critical points on the boundary
    • West side
    • East side
    • North side
    • South side
  • Step 3: Take inventory
• Constrained optimization
  • First method: Substitution
  • Second method: Lagrange multipliers