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Preface | p. xiii |
Minimums, Maximums, Derivatives, and Computers | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
When Derivatives Don't Work | p. 4 |
Using Algebra to Find Minimums | p. 5 |
A Civil Engineering Problem | p. 9 |
The AM-GM Inequality | p. 13 |
Derivatives from Physics | p. 20 |
Minimizing with a Computer | p. 24 |
The First Extremal Problems | p. 37 |
The Ancient Confusion of Length and Area | p. 37 |
Dido' Problem and the Isoperimetric Quotient | p. 45 |
Steiner '""Solution"" to Dido' Problem | p. 56 |
How Steiner Stumbled | p. 59 |
A ""Hard ""Problem wi | |
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