Illustration from Newton's
Principia for his
proof that for a monotonic
function
f defined
on an interval [
A,E] the difference between the
upper
and lower sums with
n equal subdivisions
is equal in absolute value to
(
f(
E)-
f(
A))(
E-
A)/
n
(and therefore goes to 0 as
n goes to infinity). Here
n=4.
SUNY at Stony Brook -- Honors Calculus II -- Fall 1998