Hessian of Two Particle Coulomb Potential ----------------------------------------- This is an example from the Scipy-User mailing list. The original discussion can be found on http://www.mail-archive.com/numpy-discussion@scipy.org/msg28633.html .. literalinclude:: hessian_of_potential_function.py :lines: 0- As output one obtains:: $ python hessian_of_potential_function.py Optimization terminated successfully. Current function value: 0.000000 Iterations: 81 Function evaluations: 153 [[ 5.23748399e-12 -2.61873843e-12] [ -2.61873843e-12 5.23748399e-12]]