This document discusses optimization of functions with multiple variables subject to equality constraints. It introduces the method of constrained variation and the method of Lagrange multipliers to find the extremum of a function subject to one or more equality constraints. For a specific example with two variables and one constraint, it derives the necessary conditions using both methods. It then generalizes the necessary and sufficient conditions to problems with n variables and m equality constraints, defining the Lagrangian and determining the equations that must be satisfied at an extremum.