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Let
be continuous on
.
For each
in
, define
by the formula:
To finsh the proof of FTC, we must prove that
.
We do this by calculating the derivative of
from first principles.
For the proof, we use the Mean Value Theorem for integrals of continuous functions:
for some
between
and
.
Put
and
, so that
.
Then we have, by the Mean Value Theorem for Integrals, for any
and any
, such that
and
lie in the interval
:
where
lies between
and
.
Then we have, for any
and any
, such that
and
lie in the interval
:
Now let
.
Then
, so by squeeze, since
always lies between
and
, we have:
also.
Since
is continuous, we then have
.
So we have proved that for any
in
:
But the left hand side of this equation is just the definition of
.
So we have proved that
exists and is equal to
, for any
in
, as required.
This completes the proof of FTC.
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George A. J. Sparling
2002-01-27