A Geometric Approach to Saddle Points of Surfaces
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2009-09-15 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.5400,
title = {A Geometric Approach to Saddle Points of Surfaces},
author = {Sudhir R. Ghorpade and Balmohan V. Limaye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.5400},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, 4 figures; to appear in Austral. Math. Soc. Gaz. (May 2009)