# Mean Value Theorem

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## mean value theorem

[′mēn ′val·yü ‚thir·əm]
(mathematics)
The proposition that, if a function ƒ (x) is continuous on the closed interval [a,b ] and differentiable on the open interval (a,b), then there exists x0, a <>x0<>b, such that ƒ(b) - ƒ(a) = (b-a)ƒ′(x0). Also known as first law of the mean; Lagrange's formula; law of the mean.

## Mean Value Theorem

one of the fundamental results of the differential calculus relating an increment of a function f(x) and the values of its derivative. In analytic terms,

f(b) — f(a) = (b — a)f’(c)

where c is some number satisfying the inequality a < c < b. Formula (1) is valid if the function f(x) is continuous on the segment [a, b] and has a derivative at each point of the interval (a, b). In geometric terms (see Figure 1), formula (1) states that the tangent to the curve y = f(x) at a suitable point [c, f(c)] is parallel to the chord passing through the points [a, f(a)] and [b, f(b)]. The mean value theorem was discovered by J. Lagrange in 1797.

Figure 1

Among the different generalizations of the mean value theorem, note Bonnet’s mean value formula

and its particular case, Cauchy’s mean value formula

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