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- From: kuplinsk@math.rutgers.edu (Julio Kuplinsky)
- Subject: tangent plane
- Message-ID: <Dec.18.11.34.48.1992.10102@math.rutgers.edu>
- Originator: dan@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
- Sender: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
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- Approved: Daniel Grayson <dan@math.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:34:48 GMT
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- Can anyone point me to a source that discusses this problem (which
- should be well known, I guess)?
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- Let f:R^2 ---> R be a function of type C1 with a local minimum at
- (0,0) and f(0,0)=0. Suppose that you start pouring water right above
- 0, and at some point the water starts to spill, say when the depth of
- the water is h. Is it true that there is a point (x,y) with f(x,y) =h
- where the tangent plane to f is horizontal?
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- J. Kuplinsky
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