This document discusses local maxima, local minima, and inflection points of functions. It provides the following key points:
- A function f has a local minimum at p if f(p) is less than or equal to f(x) in a small interval around p. It has a local maximum if f(p) is greater than or equal to f(x) in that interval. It has an inflection point if the concavity of f changes at p.
- Table 1 shows that if f'(p) = 0 and f''(p) is positive, f has a local minimum at p. If f'(p) = 0 and f''(p) is negative
This ppt covers following topics of Unit - 2 of B.Sc. 2 Mathematics Rolle's Theorem , Lagrange's mean value theorem , Mean value theorem & its example .
Application of partial derivatives with two variablesSagar Patel
Application of Partial Derivatives with Two Variables
Maxima And Minima Values.
Maximum And Minimum Values.
Tangent and Normal.
Error And Approximation.
This ppt covers following topics of Unit - 2 of B.Sc. 2 Mathematics Rolle's Theorem , Lagrange's mean value theorem , Mean value theorem & its example .
Application of partial derivatives with two variablesSagar Patel
Application of Partial Derivatives with Two Variables
Maxima And Minima Values.
Maximum And Minimum Values.
Tangent and Normal.
Error And Approximation.
We will define what is a function “formally”, and then
in the next lecture we will use this concept in counting.
We will also study the pigeonhole principle and its applications
Given a function f, the derivative f' can be used to get important information about f. For instance, f is increasing when f'>0. The second derivative gives useful concavity information.
Convex Analysis and Duality (based on "Functional Analysis and Optimization" ...Katsuya Ito
In this presentation, we explain the monograph ”Functional Analysis and Optimization” by Kazufumi Ito
https://kito.wordpress.ncsu.edu/files/2018/04/funa3.pdf
Our goal in this presentation is to
-Understand the basic notions of functional analysis
lower-semicontinuous, subdifferential, conjugate functional
- Understand the formulation of duality problem
primal (P), perturbed (Py), and dual (P∗) problem
-Understand the primal-dual relationships
inf(P)≤sup(P∗), inf(P) = sup(P∗), inf supL≤sup inf L
1. Local Maxima, Local Minima, and Inflection Points
Let f be a function defined on an interval [a,b] or (a,b), and let p be a point in (a,b), i.e.,
not an endpoint, if the interval is closed.
• f has a local minimum at p if f(p) ≤ f(x) for all x in a small interval around p.
• f has a local maximum at p if f(p) ≥ f(x) for all x in a small interval around p.
• f has an inflection point at p if the concavity of f changes at p, i.e. if f is concave
down on one side of p and concave up on another.
We assume that f '(p) = 0 is only at isolated points — not everywhere on some interval.
This makes things simpler, as then the three terms defined above are mutually exclusive.
The results in the tables below require that f is differentiable at p, and possibly in some
small interval around p. Some of them require that f be twice differentiable.
Table 1: Information about f at p from
the first and second derivatives at p
f '(p) f ''(p) At p, f has a_____ Examples
0 positive local minimum f(x) = x2, p = 0.
0 negative local maximum f(x) = 1− x2, p = 0.
local minimum, local f(x) = x4, p = 0. [min]
0 0 maximum, or inflection f(x) = 1− x4, p = 0. [max]
point f(x) = x3, p = 0. [inf pt]
f(x) = tan(x), p = 0. [yes]
nonzero 0 possible inflection point
f(x) = x4 + x, p = 0. [no]
nonzero nonzero none of the above
In the ambiguous cases above, we may look at the higher derivatives. For example, if
f '(p) = f ''(p) = 0, then
• If f (3)(p) ≠ 0, then f has an inflection point at p.
• Otherwise, if f (4)(p) ≠ 0, then f has a local minimum at p if f (4)(p) > 0 and a local
maximum if f (4)(p) < 0.
2. An alternative is to look at the first (and possibly second) derivative of f in some small
interval around p. This interval may be as small as we wish, as long as its size is greater
than 0.
Table 2: Information about f at p from the first and
second derivatives in a small interval around p
Change in f '(x) as x moves
f '(p) At p, f has a_____
from left to right of p
f '(x) changes from negative
0 Local minimum
to positive at p
f '(x) changes from positive to
0 Local maximum
negative at p
f '(x) has the same sign on
0 both sides of p. Inflection point
(Implies f ''(p) = 0.)
Change in f ''(x) as x moves
f '(p) f ''(p) At p, f has a_____
from left to right of p
nonzero 0 f ''(x) changes sign at p. Inflection point
f ''(x) has the same sign on None of the above.
nonzero 0 (However, f ' has an
both sides of p.
inflection point at p.)