Average pace and horizontal chords

DOI10.1007/S00283-017-9713-2MaRDI QIDQ1702531zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Keith Burns, Orit Davidovich, Diana Davis

Publication date 28 February 2018

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.00871

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary functions (26A09) Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15)

Abstract: We are motivated by a problem about running: If a race was completed in an average pace of P minutes per mile, is there necessarily some mile of the race that was run in exactly P minutes? The answer is no. We explain why, and describe the history of this celebrated problem, known as the Universal Chord Theorem. We also clarify and streamline the proof of a more powerful result by Heinz Hopf from 1937.

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• Horizontal Chord Theorems
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• The Finite Difference Extension of Rolle's Theorem

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