extrema
- plural of extremum.
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Find the local extrema for the function graphed in Exercise 1.28.
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Before looking at how to find absolute extrema, let’s examine the related concept of local extrema.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
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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As shown in Figure 4.13, one or both of these absolute extrema could occur at an endpoint.
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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 Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
