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We present an informal discussion, to illustrate how certain concepts might naturally arise in the pursuit of an answer to a fundamental question: the question of the existence of minimum and maximum values of real-valued functions.
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Pedrick, G. (1994). The Extreme-Value Problem. In: A First Course in Analysis. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8554-5_3
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