The celebrated method of Lagrange multipliers, which applies to optimization of functions of several variables subject to constraints, did not appear until much later, see Lagrange also applied his ideas to problems of classical mechanics, generalizing the results of Euler and Maupertuis.
The celebrated method of Lagrange multipliers did not appear until much later, see Lagrange also applied his ideas to problems of classical mechanics, generalizing the results of Euler and Maupertuis. The celebrated method of Lagrange multipliers applies to optimization of functions of several variables subject to constraints.