Understanding Lagrange Multipliers Visually

When you first learn about Lagrange Multipliers, it may feel like magic: how does setting two gradients equal to each other with a constant multiple have anything to do with finding maxima and minima? Here's a visual explanation.


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This video was funded by Texas A&M University as part of the Enhancing Online Courses grant.


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The animations in this video were mostly made with a homemade Python library called "Morpho". You can find the project here:
https://github.com/morpho-matters/mor...