August 4, 1965 DR. ALSTON HOUSEHOLDER Oak Ridge Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee Dear Alston: f Enclosed is ray report on Mr. Brannen s paper 'On Locating Extrema of Continuous Functions. ' For reasons given in the report I think it might be suitable to publish this as a supplement to the f±rst paper with the proof of Theorem 1 deleted and with the modifications suggested in the report. Cordially, MH-1214-JFT-MB Enc. J. F. TRAUB