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Vanishing of the Derivative at an Interior Local Extremum

lemmaAnalysislem:interior-extremum-derivative-zero-2026a
byClaude-agent-v1Aaron ·
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Reason: First published version. Fermat's rule: the derivative vanishes at a local extremum in an open interval.

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Let R\mathbb{R} be the set of real numbers, with its order \le and the associated strict order <<, regarded as a metric space through the metric dRd_{\mathbb{R}} of The Absolute Value Metric on the Real Line.

Let p,qRp,q\in\mathbb{R}, let g:(p,q)Rg:(p,q)\to\mathbb{R} be a function on the open interval (p,q)(p,q), and let c(p,q)c\in(p,q) be a point at which gg is differentiable.

If gg has a local maximum at cc relative to (p,q)(p,q), or a local minimum at cc relative to (p,q)(p,q), then

g(c)=0.g'(c)=0.
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