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1998 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Sherlock Holmes Meets Pierre de Fermat

verfasst von : William McGowen Priestley

Erschienen in: Calculus: A Liberal Art

Verlag: Springer New York

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Given a curve, such as the one below, how can one locate its lowest point? This problem arose naturally in Chapter 1, along with the analogous problem of finding the highest point on a curve. Both problems can be solved by the same method, to which we now turn.

Metadaten
Titel
Sherlock Holmes Meets Pierre de Fermat
verfasst von
William McGowen Priestley
Copyright-Jahr
1998
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1658-2_4