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  2. Quadratic function - Wikipedia

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    The coefficient a is the same value in all ... A bivariate quadratic function is a second ... the function achieves the maximum/minimum at a line—a minimum ...

  3. Extreme value theorem - Wikipedia

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    The extreme value theorem was originally proven by Bernard Bolzano in the 1830s in a work Function Theory but the work remained unpublished until 1930. Bolzano's proof consisted of showing that a continuous function on a closed interval was bounded, and then showing that the function attained a maximum and a minimum value.

  4. Maximum and minimum - Wikipedia

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    The value of the function at a maximum point is called the maximum value of the function, denoted (()), and the value of the function at a minimum point is called the minimum value of the function, (denoted (()) for clarity). Symbolically, this can be written as follows:

  5. Completing the square - Wikipedia

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    That is, h is the x-coordinate of the axis of symmetry (i.e. the axis of symmetry has equation x = h), and k is the minimum value (or maximum value, if a < 0) of the quadratic function. One way to see this is to note that the graph of the function f(x) = x 2 is a parabola whose vertex is at the origin (0, 0).

  6. Golden-section search - Wikipedia

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    The golden-section search is a technique for finding an extremum (minimum or maximum) of a function inside a specified interval. For a strictly unimodal function with an extremum inside the interval, it will find that extremum, while for an interval containing multiple extrema (possibly including the interval boundaries), it will converge to one of them.

  7. Quadratic equation - Wikipedia

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    The solutions of the quadratic equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0 correspond to the roots of the function f(x) = ax 2 + bx + c, since they are the values of x for which f(x) = 0. If a , b , and c are real numbers and the domain of f is the set of real numbers, then the roots of f are exactly the x - coordinates of the points where the graph touches the ...

  8. Hessian matrix - Wikipedia

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    Mean value theorem; Inverse function theorem ... is a local maximum, local minimum, or a ... -type methods because they are the coefficient of the quadratic term of a ...

  9. Definite quadratic form - Wikipedia

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    Suppose the matrix quadratic form is augmented with linear terms, as +, where b is an n ×1 vector of constants. The first-order conditions for a maximum or minimum are found by setting the matrix derivative to the zero vector: + =, giving