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In this chapter we extend the Taylor expansion (see 34.1) and the theory of maxima and minima (‘stationary points’) to functions of several variables. We should recall first the setting for this theory, suitably generalized to the case of several variables.

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© 1970 H. B. Griffiths and P. J. Hilton

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Griffiths, H.B., Hilton, P.J. (1970). C r-Functions. In: A Comprehensive Textbook of Classical Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6321-0_37

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