Lagrange Multipliers | Geometric Meaning & Full Example

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At the age of 66 after trying to understand Lagrange multipliers since the age of 18, I think I've finally got it. Conturs and gradients. Excellent graphics!

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[@nathanborak2172]

This is not the way I have usually thought about it but it's equivalent. The way I've usually thought about it is that you imagine walking along the constraint and observing the gradient of f as you go. If the gradient of f has any component along the constraint, it means you can keep walking along the constraint and get higher (or lower) values of f, since the directional derivative is just the component of gradf(f) along the direction you're moving. Therefor you keep walking around the constraint until you reach a point where the gradient of f is normal to the constraint, since at this point f is instantaneously not changing. To me this is more intuitive than thinking the level curve of f should be tangent to the constraint, even though the gradient of f being normal to the constraint IS the level curve being tangent to it. Different strokes I guess.

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Such a nice video. Very enthusiastic presentation. The graphics are some of the most explanatory one for Lagrangian Multipliers that I've ever seen.

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@@DrTrefor 5:54 could you explain why the gradient is always normal to the level curve ? you have any video on that ?

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@@firsttnamee3883 ya he has a video called gradient vector or something like that just search in his multivariable course

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Every person who has ever taken an optimization course should see this short video! It gives you so much mathematical intuition to the concept of constraints and Lagrange multipliers!

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me too

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I think Geometric interpretation is the whole point of it. The "discoverer" of it probably thought of it in this way itself, it is as if spirit joins othervise empty shell. Even though mathematicians like to portray these stuff on less visual basis, more "universal" logical one, this is how visionaries think in my opinion.

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Taking multivariable calculus right now and I can’t stand when I have a lecture that is super long for absolutely no reason without even taking the time to explain some intuition. This video is great for the intuition thank you

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Thanks for your explanation, Dr. Trefor Bazett. I was trying to imagine the stuffs in my head and it didn't work until I came here to see your graph visualization. Thumb up for your great work.

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The 3D visualization helped a lot. One of the best explainations on internet.

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Glad the graphs helped!

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Thank you so much for this perfect visual representation of the Lagrange multipliers! I was so use to doing the same calculation techniques without really understanding what they mean and you just clarified everything!

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Graphs help to visualise far better than asking to do self - imagination that may be error-riddened. I hope this video reaches to all those who truly want to learn this concept.

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This is the best explanation of the Lagrange multiplier I could find online. Thanks. Nice graphics!

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Hi, Trefor, could you please explain in your 3D graph about the difference between the graph of f(x,y)=x²+y² and f(x,y,z)=x²+y²+z² ?

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Thanks Dr for the clear and precise explanation.It is the best so far I have seen regarding Lagrange Multipliers.Very Intuitive!!This is what we need in Mathematics ,not just formula.Thanks once more!

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[@DrTrefor]

You're very welcome!

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[@todianmishtaku6249]

@@DrTrefor First off, let me express my deep gratitude about this great explanation. Many tutorials seem to skip important moments in explaining the geometric intuition behind the main equation of scalar multipliers. Still I have something unclear. When we say that the gradients of f and g have the same direction, it seems to imagine them lying in the same plane; and, this plane is the same where the contour line of f lies in. Isn't it like this? If so, it is obvious that two vectors that lie in the same plane and are perpendicular to the same straight line, then they are parallel one to another. BUT, the gradient of f in fact does not lie on the plane defined by contour line; it is a vector in 3D space (which, for instance, points to the top of hill). How do we know that the gradient of g at the tangent point is parallel with the gradient of f? Or when you say that the contour line of f and the one of g are tangent, do you have in mind a common tangent line or a common tangent plane? You show that real gradients in 3D are "projected" into 2D. In other tutorials, people see just the ones in 2D and then the analysis that gradients are collinear is quite easy because the analysis about parallelism seems to be based on 2D, but as I mentioned above my concern is related to the fact that the real gradients we put in the equation are in 3D; hence showing their parallelism remains a bit unclear. In other words, when we say that the gradient of f is perpendicular to f, that can be true even if the gradient does not lie on the plane defined by the contour line. Could you please shed more light on these "paradoxes" (which may be only my paradoxes) ? Could you please draw both gradients (for the f and g) on the graph of the left side? Could you please pick up two or more g functions?

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That explanation about the tangent gradients was very clear and helped me a lot. Thanks

[@JamesKim-f9c]

Excellent video Trefor. Not to be pedentic, but @7:02, you have ▽f and ▽g on the top right side... on the bottom left side, the gradient vectors should be -▽f and -▽g since they are in the opposite direction.

[@gratux]

the gradient is itself a function, so it doesn't have to point in the same direction everywhere. if you plug the two points into grad(f) and grad(g), you indeed get the shown vectors, no negative required.

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9:05 Not the focus of the video, but a slightly neater approach is to square the first and second equations and sum them up resulting in x² + y² = 4λ²(x² + y²). By the third equation, it follows immediately that λ² = 1/4. Then, proceed the same as before.

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Which professor teaches you 18.02?

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plls12 Are you an MIT student

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Matthias Takele Nope, I applied to the transfer program so hopefully I’ll get in. I ask because I am watching 18.02 on OCW by Denis Auroux and so far he’s been phenomenal

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Thanks for doing this video. It's great. I'm only sad that I discovered it only after I've already understood it. I've been looking at these Lagrange explanations for years and yours is approximately the best. I love your graphics and your explanation. (Maybe the audio could be a bit better.) If anyone is curious as to a real-life application of this type of solution, think about a consumer that has a budget constraint of, say, $12,000 / year to spend on either food (f) or clothing (c) and the utility U they derive from that food and clothing is given by U = f * c + 1. Their (budget) constraint is the line given by $12000 = (Pf)(f) + (Pc)(c). This method helps us find the combination of food and clothing that maximizes the consumers utility given their budget constraint. Yay! :)

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