Subject: newbie question, finding minima and maxima
From: Hugo Coolens
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 10:00:58 +0100 (CET)
Is there a simple way to make look Maxima for a (preferably global)
maximum of a function?
I know of course you can use the derivative(s) and look for critical
points etc. but because I don't want to "reinvent the wheel" I wonder
whether Maxima already has a function like globalmax(f(x),[a,b]) or
something similar which just returns the point for which f(x) has its
maximum value.
regards,
hugo