Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2014 / Paper 2 / 8

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Stationarity requires both first partial derivatives to vanish:

z_{x} = - sin x sin y = 0, z_{y} = cos x cos y = 0.

For example, choosing

x = π

and

cos y = 0

gives two points strictly inside the prescribed rectangle:

(x, y) = (π, π /2), (π, 3 π /2) .

Both satisfy the two derivative equations directly.

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