Discriminant of A Differentiable Function
In differential topology, the discriminant of a differentiable function f is the same as the set of critical values of f. The discriminant in this sense is somewhat related to the discriminant of a polynomial; for example, if f(x)=ax2+bx+c is a quadratic (a≠0), then the critical value of f will be which is (up to a constant) equal to the discriminant of a quadratic polynomial.
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