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This lecture revisits the concept of local and absolute extremums of a function of several variables, defining them and providing examples. It also covers the necessary conditions for a function to have local extremums, emphasizing the importance of critical points. The lecture concludes with a discussion on the classification of critical points and the nature of stationary points, illustrating the concepts with demonstrations and notations.