Why does $\wedge$ denote a minimum and $\vee$ a maximum? Where did this notation come from? I keep getting them mixed up because to me, $\wedge$ should be a maximum: it's a hill, …

The answer is it has only one local minimum which is also an absolute minimum. Now if you modify that definition in your textbook to work for closed intervals then you would simply have …

How do you compute the minimum of two independent random variables in the general case ? In the particular case there would be two uniform variables with a difference support, how should …

Mar 27, 2013 · What is the difference between minimum and infimum? I have a great confusion about this.

Expected value of maximum and minimum of $n$ normal random variables Ask Question Asked 12 years, 3 months ago Modified 4 years, 3 months ago

It is the same difference between the notion of minimal elements and minimum in a set provided by an order relation, in your case the set is the set of edge cuts and the relation in the …

The global maximum and the global minimum of the function $f (x,y,z)=xyz$ with the constraint $x^2+2y^2+3z^2=6$ can be found using Lagrange multipliers. $\nabla f = \lambda \nabla g$

1 More generally, if the objective function is strictly convex (objective is quadratic, check), the feasible region is convex (constraint is linear, check), and the problem is symmetric (i.e., the …

Apr 11, 2018 · Can you elaborate on what it means for a line to follow a curve? Is the question simply to find the shortest distance between $ (2,0)$ and that curve?

May 15, 2015 · Show that a rectangular prism (box) of given volume has minimum surface area if the box is a cube. Could you give me some hints what we are supposed to do?? $$$$ EDIT: …