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2020年9月28日 · Search for the video about the second derivative test, and you will probably have your answer. Grant likes to give intuitive explanations about why things are the way they are instead of just hammering the proof on your soul.

(The reason the second derivative test fails for this function is that it is too flat near its critical point. This extreme flatness is what makes so many of the higher-order derivatives zero.) But your function is so simple to understand that its global properties are obvious if you think geometrically.

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2018年8月2日 · $\begingroup$ @KeshavSrinivasan the reason people are saying the higher-order derivative test you found is not in the same spirit as the 2nd-derivative test is that the 2nd-derivative test is a numerical test: there are standard algorithms to determine if a quadratic form is positive definite, negative definite, or indefinite. The test you ...

Your second formula would be also correct if it included the term $\frac{\partial f}{\partial u}u''$. By the way, although typing \partial in TeX is a nuisance, it is a standard notation for partial derivatives.

2022年1月28日 · So the Second Derivative Test is inconclusive, so I don't know which points could possibly be max or min points or saddle points. I can look at the graph in geogebra and visually verify, but how would I know with pencil and paper only which spots along the y axis are min/max/saddle?

2021年2月28日 · Both the partial derivatives are zero at $(0,0)$, however, the Hessian too, is zero for $(0,0)$, which means that second derivative test is inconclusive. How then , can we come to the conclusion that $(0,0)$ is a saddle point?

2016年11月9日 · With the second derivative test I have found that $(2, 1)$ is a relative maximum. ... multivariable-calculus.

The "second-derivative test", like a lot of mathematical "tools", has a limit to its utility. We must expect to do some extra investigation on critical points when we deal with power functions with exponents greater than two.