I’m trying to find the saddle point of a function. I’ve programmed a function saddle below (but if you know of a library to find saddle points, please let me know). The idea is that the input function should be specified in a way such that the first argument is a vector for which the function is min…

Finding saddle point

cortner February 25, 2019, 10:32am 6

Can you elaborate on how to use NLsolve for this? Take first derivatives and solve for the zero of the system?

exactly.

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