extremum
noun
a maximum or minimum value of a function in a specified neighborhood.
extrema
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pluralof extremum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The next step involves finding the extrema of g on the boundary of its domain.
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We have also defined local extrema and determined that if a function f has a local extremum at a point c, then c must be a critical point of f .
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In some of these cases, the functions have local extrema at critical points, whereas in other cases the functions do not.
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At this point, we know how to locate absolute extrema for continuous functions over closed intervals.
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Observing that Fontenelle at first opposed the Newtonian philosophy, and embraced it afterwards, his words were:—"Fontenellus, ni fallor, in extrema senectute fuit transfuga ad castra Newtoniana."
From Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
