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3. Applications of differential calculus
3.1 Convex functions
Definition 19. Let f be an application defined on I with values in
; f is said to be convex when for any pair (x, y ) of I ² and for any λ of [0, 1], we have :
We say that f is concave if - f is convex.
The convexity...
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Applications of differential calculus