Let
, and let
, if it's the case that
, then let
if
then we apply MVT on the interval
to get some
such that
so that
and that Now if
one can do the same analysis but will obtain some
such that
so that
Now when
, we have the following integral inequalities, note the the first integral exists because
is continuous:
But note that the integral on the right measure the area of the function
which hits the y axis at
and has legs coming down which intersect the
axis at
respectively, so that the total area is given by
. Now focusing on the left hand side we recall that since
is a continuous function such that
then we have:
thus chaining previous inqualities with the above equality we have:
If it turns out that
is negative we can get the same bound, which shows for an arbitrary choice of
we were able to deduce that
, thus