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| ====== Lagrange Multiplier ====== | ====== Lagrange Multiplier ====== | ||
| - | <tabbox Why is it interesting?> | + | <tabbox Intuitive> |
| + | * [[https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2018/07/06/lagrange_multipliers/|More people should know about Lagrange multipliers]] by Brian Skinner | ||
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| + | Sometimes you want to maximize something (profit, health, utility, floor space) but subject to a constraint. A Lagrange multiplier is the name for the variable you mess with when running optimization algorithms/functions in order to find that maximum. | ||
| - | <tabbox Layman> | + | <tabbox Concrete> |
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| - | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | + | |
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| [{{ :basic_tools:lagrangemultiplier.png?nolink&600 |https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/classical-mechanics-versus-thermodynamics-part-1/}}] | [{{ :basic_tools:lagrangemultiplier.png?nolink&600 |https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/classical-mechanics-versus-thermodynamics-part-1/}}] | ||
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