On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:19 PM, David C. Ullrich wrote:

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:37:32 -0400, Charles Yeomans
<char...@declaresub.com> wrote:


On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:04 AM, Paul Rubin wrote:

Jaime Fernandez del Rio <jaime.f...@gmail.com> writes:
I am pretty sure that a continuous sequence of
curves that converges to a continuous curve, will do so uniformly.

I think a typical example of a curve that's continuous but not
uniformly continuous is

 f(t) = sin(1/t), defined when t > 0

It is continuous at every t>0 but wiggles violently as you get closer
to t=0.  You wouldn't be able to approximate it by sampling a finite
number of points.  A sequence like

 g_n(t) = sin((1+1/n)/ t)    for n=1,2,...

obviously converges to f, but not uniformly.  On a closed interval,
any continuous function is uniformly continuous.

Isn't (-?, ?) closed?

What is your version of the definition of "closed"?


My version of a closed interval is one that contains its limit points.

Charles Yeomans

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