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When teaching someone how to prove a function is uniformly continuous, using epsilon/delta, which example would be among the simplest?
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I've taught how to use $epsilon, delta$ to prove that a function is continuous at a point, and I'm about to teach how to prove that a function is continuous over an open interval.
Usually, the examples I can think of that seem easy enough on the outside, require some algebraic trickery that might make it seem more daunting than it needs to be, and may inspire a "damn, this is too difficult" mentality.
Are there some examples of functions that are almost painfully straightforward to give a soft introduction to these, that I may increase the difficulty more smoothly?
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I've taught how to use $epsilon, delta$ to prove that a function is continuous at a point, and I'm about to teach how to prove that a function is continuous over an open interval.
Usually, the examples I can think of that seem easy enough on the outside, require some algebraic trickery that might make it seem more daunting than it needs to be, and may inspire a "damn, this is too difficult" mentality.
Are there some examples of functions that are almost painfully straightforward to give a soft introduction to these, that I may increase the difficulty more smoothly?
calculus limits
asked 4 hours ago
AlecAlec
609310
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A linear function, perhaps?
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– paw88789
4 hours ago
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@paw88789 - Definitely a good idea, yeah. Easy, quick, and no long lines of algebra that draw attention away from the end goal. Thanks for the tip! Any natural steps beyond that?
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– Alec
4 hours ago
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I've taught how to use $epsilon, delta$ to prove that a function is continuous at a point, and I'm about to teach how to prove that a function is continuous over an open interval.
Usually, the examples I can think of that seem easy enough on the outside, require some algebraic trickery that might make it seem more daunting than it needs to be, and may inspire a "damn, this is too difficult" mentality.
Are there some examples of functions that are almost painfully straightforward to give a soft introduction to these, that I may increase the difficulty more smoothly?
calculus limits
asked 4 hours ago
AlecAlec
609310
$endgroup$
I've taught how to use $epsilon, delta$ to prove that a function is continuous at a point, and I'm about to teach how to prove that a function is continuous over an open interval.
Usually, the examples I can think of that seem easy enough on the outside, require some algebraic trickery that might make it seem more daunting than it needs to be, and may inspire a "damn, this is too difficult" mentality.
Are there some examples of functions that are almost painfully straightforward to give a soft introduction to these, that I may increase the difficulty more smoothly?
calculus limits
calculus limits
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AlecAlec
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AlecAlec
609310
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AlecAlec
609310
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AlecAlec
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A linear function, perhaps?
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– paw88789
4 hours ago
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@paw88789 - Definitely a good idea, yeah. Easy, quick, and no long lines of algebra that draw attention away from the end goal. Thanks for the tip! Any natural steps beyond that?
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– Alec
4 hours ago
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A linear function, perhaps?
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– paw88789
4 hours ago
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@paw88789 - Definitely a good idea, yeah. Easy, quick, and no long lines of algebra that draw attention away from the end goal. Thanks for the tip! Any natural steps beyond that?
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– Alec
4 hours ago
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A linear function, perhaps?
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– paw88789
4 hours ago
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A linear function, perhaps?
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– paw88789
4 hours ago
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@paw88789 - Definitely a good idea, yeah. Easy, quick, and no long lines of algebra that draw attention away from the end goal. Thanks for the tip! Any natural steps beyond that?
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– Alec
4 hours ago
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@paw88789 - Definitely a good idea, yeah. Easy, quick, and no long lines of algebra that draw attention away from the end goal. Thanks for the tip! Any natural steps beyond that?
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– Alec
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I think this cannot be understood without a contrasting example where it fails.
So perhaps, in addition to a linear function as suggested by @paw88789, consider $f(x) = frac{1}{x}$ over the open interval $(0,1)$.
It is continuous over that interval, but not uniformly continuous.
Fix an $epsilon > 0$; then for any $delta > 0$ one can
arrange the difference in $f$-values to exceed $epsilon$ by getting
close enough to $x=0$.
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I think this cannot be understood without a contrasting example where it fails.
So perhaps, in addition to a linear function as suggested by @paw88789, consider $f(x) = frac{1}{x}$ over the open interval $(0,1)$.
It is continuous over that interval, but not uniformly continuous.
Fix an $epsilon > 0$; then for any $delta > 0$ one can
arrange the difference in $f$-values to exceed $epsilon$ by getting
close enough to $x=0$.
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I think this cannot be understood without a contrasting example where it fails.
So perhaps, in addition to a linear function as suggested by @paw88789, consider $f(x) = frac{1}{x}$ over the open interval $(0,1)$.
It is continuous over that interval, but not uniformly continuous.
Fix an $epsilon > 0$; then for any $delta > 0$ one can
arrange the difference in $f$-values to exceed $epsilon$ by getting
close enough to $x=0$.
answered 2 hours ago
Joseph O'RourkeJoseph O'Rourke
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I think this cannot be understood without a contrasting example where it fails.
So perhaps, in addition to a linear function as suggested by @paw88789, consider $f(x) = frac{1}{x}$ over the open interval $(0,1)$.
It is continuous over that interval, but not uniformly continuous.
Fix an $epsilon > 0$; then for any $delta > 0$ one can
arrange the difference in $f$-values to exceed $epsilon$ by getting
close enough to $x=0$.
answered 2 hours ago
Joseph O'RourkeJoseph O'Rourke
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I think this cannot be understood without a contrasting example where it fails.
So perhaps, in addition to a linear function as suggested by @paw88789, consider $f(x) = frac{1}{x}$ over the open interval $(0,1)$.
It is continuous over that interval, but not uniformly continuous.
Fix an $epsilon > 0$; then for any $delta > 0$ one can
arrange the difference in $f$-values to exceed $epsilon$ by getting
close enough to $x=0$.
answered 2 hours ago
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