Talk:Method of steepest descent

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[edit] This page should split in two

I don't think "Method of Steepest Descent" and "Laplace's Method" should be the same page. While you could perhaps call Laplace's Method a special case, that is misleading. The Method of Steepest Descent is a technique to reduce a problem to a form where you can apply Laplace's Method. It would be much more valuable to have separate pages, so that there is some information on steepest descent and saddle-point methods (e.g. why deform a contour onto the steepest descent path, and why this has constant phase). Lavaka 19:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] fr link points to wrong article

The fr: link for this page points to the French article for 'Stationary Phase' -- not for 'Steepest Descent' -- I'm not sure how to fix this though as I don't know enough French to find the right article in French wikipedia. Help? Zero sharp 23:21, 26 November 2006 (UTC)