direction of greatest curvature
Oct. 13th, 2011 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslThe direction of steepest ascent/descent is just the direction of the gradient.
But what about the second derivative? How do you compute the direction of greatest curvature?
But what about the second derivative? How do you compute the direction of greatest curvature?