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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2010 Paper 2 3 Solution by
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The first partial derivatives factor asBoth vanish at the origin, verifying that it is a stationary point. Since , every stationary point has ; the first equation then gives . Thus one requested additional point is ; the other is .
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