Book Description

An Unabridged Printing With Text And Figures Digitally Enlarged: Functions Of One Variable (Ordinary Maxima And Minima - Extraordinary Maxima And Minima) - Functions Of Several Variables (Ordinary Maxima And Minima - Relative Maxima And Minima) - Functions Of Two Variables (Ordinary Extremes - Incorrectness Of Deductions Made By Earlier And Many Modern Writers - Different Attempts To Improve The Theory) - The Scheeffer Theory (General Criteria For A Greatest And A Least Value Of A Function Of Two Variables; In Particular The Extraordinary Extremes - Homogeneous Functions - The Method Of Victor Vs. Dantscher - Functions Of Three Variables - Maxima And Minima Of Functions Of Several Variables That Are Subjected To No Subsidiary Conditions (Ordinary Extremes - Theory Of The Homogeneous Quadric Forms - Application Of The Theory Of Quadratic Forms To The Problem Of Maxima And Minima) - Theory Of Maxima And Minima Of Functions Of Several Variables That Are Subjected To Subsidiary Conditions Relative To Maxima And Minima (Theory Of Homogeneous Quadratic Forms - Application Of The Criteria Just Found To The Problem Of This Chapter) - Special Cases (Examples Of Improper Extremes - Gauss's Principle - The Reversion Of Series) - Certain Fundamental Conceptions In The Theory Of Analytic Functions (Analytic Dependence - Algebraic Structures In Two Variables) - Index