A necessary condition that a differentiable function \(f(x)\) has a local maximum (minimum) at \(x=c\), that is, \(f(x) \leq f(c),(f(x) \geq f(c))\) in a neighborhood \(c-\delta \leq x \leq c+\delta(\) \(\delta>0\) ) of \(c\), is \(f^{\prime}(c)=0\).