Talk:Mean value theorem
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This mvt things badly needs a picture to clear things up.
The agreed policy is that all words in a species' official common name should be capitalised, other than those following a hyphen if they refer to a part of the animal: "Bald Eagle", "Red-necked Phalarope", "Wilson's Storm-Petrel".
The biology convention appears to be applicable to math as well. Pizza Puzzle
- ...and were the mean value theorem an animal, I'd agree with you. -- The Anome 14:13 2 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Well, so much for logic...do you have some conventional ruling which you feel somehow overrids that and the convention that proper names should be capitalized? How is it easier to read Joseph-Louis LaGrange; instead of simply LaGrange. Students of the Mean Value Thoerem do not need to be on a first name basis with Joe. Pizza Puzzle
Shouldn't the theorem text in the image be cropped? The theorem is stated in the article, and in greater detail. Dysprosia 11:42, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
The illustration says "there exist", where evidently it means "there exists". Could someone correct this? -- I don't know what software created the illustration. Thanks. Michael Hardy 00:22, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Calculus table move
I moved the calculus table down to the See also section. Both the table and diagram wouldn't fit side by side at many window sizes, and there wasn't room for it right under the main picture or in any other section. Besides this, it makes sense in see also — it is, after all, a list of related links. Deco 02:33, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Generalization
'Twould be nice to have something in here about how the MVT generalizes to a function f:Rn --> Rm... -GTBacchus 23:38, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] The section on divided differences in the article
- moved to Talk:Mean value theorem (divided differences) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:13, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Cauchy's mean value theorem
Hello, I'm french and my english is really too bad but I think, there is an error in this theorem : if you divide by g(b) - g(a), necessary, you must have 
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In the same way, if you divide by g'(c), you must have 
for all x in ]a ; b[.
HB in wikipedia.fr
- You are right, fixed! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 23:07, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Integrable?
The word "integrable" links to the article on integration - but the word "integrable" does not occur in the linked article. If anyone knows of an article in which the term "integrable" is defined, maybe you should link to that instead.
