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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.
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Priestley, W.M. (1979). Sherlock Holmes Meets Pierre de Fermat. In: Calculus: An Historical Approach. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9349-8_3
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