A beautiful foggy rounded painting of the In calculus, the squeeze theorem also known as the sandwich theorem, among other names is a theorem regarding the limit of a function that is trapped between two other functions. The squeeze theorem is used in calculus and mathematical analysis, typically to confirm the limit of a function via comparison with two other functions whose limits are known. It was first used geometrically by the mathematicians Archimedes and Eudoxus in an effort to compute pi and was formulated in modern terms by Carl Friedrich Gauss. In many languages the squeeze theorem is also known as the two officers theorem, or some variation thereof The story is that if two police officers are escorting a drunk prisoner between them, and both officers go to a cell, then regardless of the path taken, and the fact that the prisoner may be wobbling about between the officers the prisoner must also end up in the cell, by Wendy Froud and J.M.W. Turner, pastel, unsplash contest winner | Painting