Chapter 14 · Partial Derivatives
14.12
Lagrange Multipliers
To optimize f subject to a constraint g = k, look for points where the gradients of f and g are parallel.
About 16 minutes
You'll learn to
- →Set up and solve Lagrange multiplier equations
- →Understand why ∇f = λ∇g at an optimum
- →Solve constrained optimization problems
- →Interpret λ