ABSTRACT

An antiderivative (or primitive function) of a given function f (x) on an interval (a, b) is a differentiable function F (x) such that its derivative is equal to f (x) for all x (a, b):

THEOREM. Any function f (x) continuous on an interval (a, b) has infinitely many continuous antiderivatives on (a, b). If F (x) is one of them, then any other antiderivative has the form F (x) + C , where C is a constant.