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Lesson 88 of 96 · Module 7: The Riemann Integral
Answer: Yes, it is continuous at $x = 0$.
Answer: No, the function $f(x) = |x - 1/2|$ is a counterexample.
Answer: No, the limit of polynomials can be a non-polynomial function like $e^x$.
Answer: False
Answer: $\exists y \in \mathbb{R}, \forall x \in \mathbb{R} : y > x$
Answer: (A) is True, (B) is False
Answer: $\forall L, \exists \epsilon > 0, \forall \delta > 0, \exists x, (|x-a| < \delta \text{ and } |f(x)-L| \ge \epsilon)$
Answer: There exists a real number $x$ such that for all real numbers $y$, $x^2 + y^2 \neq 1$.
Answer: For all functions $f$, there exist $x, y$ in the domain such that $x < y$ and $f(x) \ge f(y)$.
Answer: The product is $2(2kj + k)$, which fits the definition of an even number.
Answer: The expression simplifies to $2(2k^2 + 2k)$, which is even.
Answer: The sum is $3(n+1)$, which is divisible by 3.
Answer: Proven via contrapositive.
Answer: Proven via contrapositive.
Answer: Proven via contrapositive.
Answer: n \text{ is even}
Answer: \text{No largest integer exists}
Answer: \sqrt{3} \notin \mathbb{Q}
Answer: \frac{n(n+1)(2n+1)}{6}
Answer: 2^n > n
Answer: 3^n > n
Answer: $\sum_{i=0}^{n} 2^i = 2^{n+1} - 1$
Answer: Every integer $n \ge 2$ is a product of primes.
Answer: $(1+x)^n > 1 + nx$
Answer: Yes, it is a bijection.
Answer: [0, 2]
Answer: Injective, but not surjective.
Answer: Proven via contrapositive.
Answer: Yes, it is a bijection.
Answer: Proven via induction.
Answer: $\frac{665857}{470832}$
Answer: The terms are terminating decimals (fractions), but the limit is $\sqrt{2}$, which is irrational.
Answer: No; the rationals are dense but incomplete.
Answer: x^2 \ge 0
Answer: a + c < b + d
Answer: a^2 < a
Answer: \sup S = 1, \text{ no maximum exists}
Answer: \sup S = 3, \text{ no maximum exists}
Answer: \sup S = m
Answer: \sup S = 1
Answer: \inf S = 1
Answer: \sup S = 3, \inf S = -3
Answer: The existence of $n$ is guaranteed by the Archimedean property applied to $1/a$.
Answer: The rational $q = m/n$ exists where $n > 1/(y-x)$ and $m = \lceil nx \rceil$ (if $nx$ is not an integer).
Answer: Such a $q$ exists by the density of the rationals in the interval $(0, \epsilon)$.
Answer: f(n) = 2n - 1
Answer: Yes, it is countable.
Answer: The union is countable.
Answer: The set $S$ is uncountable by Cantor's diagonal argument.
Answer: $B$ must also be uncountable.
Answer: The set of irrationals is uncountable.
Answer: No, $\frac{7}{27} \notin C$.
Answer: Endpoints are never removed because only open intervals are deleted.
Answer: Yes, it would still be uncountable.
Answer: $\frac{8}{11}$
Answer: $0.5$
Answer: $\frac{41}{333}$
Answer: \sup S = \sqrt{2}-1 \text{ (contained)}, \inf S = 0 \text{ (not contained)}
Answer: Proven by induction.
Answer: The set of irrationals is uncountable.
Answer: The sequence converges to $0$ with $N = \lceil \frac{5}{\epsilon} - 2 \rceil$ (or any larger integer).
Answer: The sequence converges to $1$ with $N = \lceil \frac{1}{\epsilon} \rceil$.
Answer: The sequence does not converge to $0$ because for $\epsilon = 0.5$, $|a_n - 0| \geq \epsilon$ for all $n$.
Answer: The sequence converges to $0$.
Answer: The sequence converges to $1$.
Answer: The sequence converges to $2$.
Answer: The sequence $|a_n|$ converges to $0$.
Answer: $a_n = (-1)^n$ is bounded but diverges due to oscillation.
Answer: $c_n \to L - M$.
Answer: The sum converges to $L + M$.
Answer: 2
Answer: The sequence converges to $L^2$.
Answer: 0
Answer: 0
Answer: 0
Answer: The sequence converges because it is monotonically increasing and bounded above by 2.
Answer: L = 2
Answer: Yes, it converges to 1.
Answer: \frac{1}{2!}(1 - \frac{1}{n})(1 - \frac{2}{n}) \leq \frac{1}{2}
Answer: a_{n+1} > a_n
Answer: a_n < 3
Answer: Diverges
Answer: \lim_{n \to \infty} a_n = 0
Answer: Diverges
Answer: The sequence is bounded and every convergent subsequence converges to $5$.
Answer: The subsequential limits are $\{-1, 0, 1\}$.
Answer: The subsequential limits are $1$ and $-1$.
Answer: The sequence is Cauchy because for any $\epsilon > 0$, choosing $N > 1/\epsilon$ ensures $|a_n - a_m| < \epsilon$ for all $n, m \ge N$.
Answer: The sequence is not Cauchy because the distance between terms can be made arbitrarily large.
Answer: The sequence is Cauchy because the sum of the gaps between consecutive terms is bounded by a convergent geometric series.
Answer: The sequence is Cauchy because $|a_m - a_n| < \frac{1}{n}$, so it converges.
Answer: The sequence is not Cauchy because $|a_{2n} - a_n| = \ln(2)$ for all $n$.
Answer: The sequence converges to $L$ by the triangle inequality and the Cauchy property.
Answer: \limsup a_n = 1, \liminf a_n = 0
Answer: \limsup a_n = \liminf a_n = 2, \text{ so it converges to } 2
Answer: \text{No, because } \limsup a_n \neq \liminf a_n
Answer: $\sqrt{3}$
Answer: 3
Answer: Yes, it converges to 1.
Answer: $L = 2$
Answer: $\liminf a_n = -1, \limsup a_n = 1$
Answer: The sequence is Cauchy because $|a_m - a_n| < 1/n$ for $m > n$.
Answer: 20/3
Answer: 9/5
Answer: 1/6
Answer: The series converges because the block sum is bounded by $\frac{1}{n}$, which can be made arbitrarily small.
Answer: The result follows directly from the Cauchy criterion by setting $m = n + 1$.
Answer: Yes, it satisfies the Cauchy criterion because the series converges.
Answer: Converges
Answer: Converges
Answer: Diverges
Answer: Converges absolutely
Answer: Diverges
Answer: Converges absolutely
Answer: Converges
Answer: n = 9
Answer: Diverges
Answer: Conditionally convergent; $\sum a_n^+ = \infty$ and $\sum a_n^- = -\infty$.
Answer: The statement is true by the linearity of convergent series.
Answer: No, because if $\sum a_n^+$ converges, the total series can only converge if $\sum a_n^-$ also converges, which would imply absolute convergence.
Answer: Start with $1$, then add negative terms until the sum is $< 1$, then positive terms until the sum is $> 1$.
Answer: No, because absolutely convergent series are invariant under rearrangement.
Answer: By greedily adding negative terms to pass $-1, -2, -3, \dots$ and adding single positive terms to maintain the bijection.
Answer: $\sum c_n = 9/4$
Answer: $c_n = \frac{2^n}{n!}$
Answer: The series is conditionally convergent and the resulting Cauchy product diverges.
Answer: 0.0111_2
Answer: 0.0444\dots_5
Answer: 1
Answer: Converges
Answer: Conditionally convergent
Answer: c_0 = 1, c_1 = 2/3, c_2 = 1/3
Answer: Open
Answer: Open
Answer: Neither
Answer: \text{int}(S) = (-1, 1), \text{cl}(S) = [-1, 1], \partial S = \{-1, 1\}
Answer: \text{Limit points} = \{0\}, \text{cl}(S) = \{ \frac{1}{n} : n \in \mathbb{N} \} \cup \{0\}
Answer: \partial S = \text{cl}(S) \setminus S
Answer: Yes, it is compact.
Answer: No, it is not compact.
Answer: No, it is not compact.
Answer: Not compact
Answer: Not compact
Answer: Not compact
Answer: Not sequentially compact.
Answer: Yes, it is sequentially compact.
Answer: S is not sequentially compact; $S' = \{ 1 + \frac{1}{n} : n \in \mathbb{N} \} \cup \{1\}$.
Answer: Connected
Answer: Disconnected
Answer: Disconnected
Answer: No, $S$ is not perfect because it contains isolated points.
Answer: The set is closed and contains no isolated points, thus it is perfect.
Answer: Perfect sets are always uncountable; uncountability does not imply the existence of an interval.
Answer: The set $S$ is dense because for any interval $(a, b)$, we can find $n$ such that $1/3^n < b-a$, ensuring a point of $S$ lies within the interval.
Answer: Yes, $\mathbb{Z}$ is F-sigma because it is a countable union of closed singleton sets.
Answer: The complement of a G-delta set is always an F-sigma set.
Answer: The domain is not compact, but the function is bounded.
Answer: No, because the domain is not connected.
Answer: The slope increases without bound near 0, requiring $\delta$ to approach 0, so no global $\delta$ exists.
Answer: Open
Answer: S' = \{0\}, \overline{S} = \{ 1/n : n \in \mathbb{N} \} \cup \{0\}
Answer: Compact, but not connected
Answer: \delta = \epsilon/2
Answer: \delta = \epsilon/5
Answer: \delta = \min(1, \epsilon/3)
Answer: \delta = \epsilon/4
Answer: \delta = \min(1, \epsilon/6)
Answer: \delta = \min(1, \epsilon/2)
Answer: \delta = \min(1, \frac{\epsilon}{6})
Answer: \delta = \min(1, 2\epsilon)
Answer: \delta = \min(1, \frac{\epsilon}{7})
Answer: Continuous at $x=0$
Answer: \delta = \epsilon/3
Answer: Discontinuous at $x=1$
Answer: Continuous only at $x = 0$.
Answer: The limit of a rational sequence is 1, while $f(\pi) = 0$.
Answer: The limit is 0 because rationals with small denominators are finite in any bounded region.
Answer: [-5, -3) \cup (-3, 3) \cup (3, \infty)
Answer: No, because the outer function is discontinuous at $g(0)=1$.
Answer: Polynomials are continuous as they are finite sums of products of continuous functions.
Answer: No absolute maximum exists; absolute minimum is $1$ at $x=1$. EVT fails because the interval is not closed.
Answer: Absolute maximum is $5$ at $x=0$; absolute minimum is $1$ at $x=2$.
Answer: Since $M > m$ and $f(a)$ is just one value, at least one of the extrema must differ from $f(a)$.
Answer: A root exists because $f(-2) = -33$ and $f(0) = 1$.
Answer: The points $c=0$ and $c=1$ satisfy $f(c)=c$.
Answer: The IVT applied to the two sub-intervals $[0, d]$ and $[d, 1]$ guarantees two distinct points.
Answer: Yes, it is uniformly continuous.
Answer: \delta = \epsilon/3
Answer: Not uniformly continuous.
Answer: Yes, it is uniformly continuous.
Answer: The domain $(0, 1)$ is not compact because it is not closed.
Answer: The function $f$ must be discontinuous at at least one of the endpoints $a$ or $b$.
Answer: The set $S$ is countable because it can be injected into the set of rational numbers.
Answer: The continuity of $f^{-1}$ follows from the fact that $f$ maps open intervals to open intervals.
Answer: A function defined on $D = [0, 1/2] \cup [1, 3/2]$ with $f(x)=x$ on the first part and $f(x)=x-1/2$ on the second part works.
Answer: \delta = \min(1, \epsilon/5)
Answer: Yes, it is uniformly continuous by the Heine-Cantor Theorem.
Answer: Not uniformly continuous because the slope increases without bound as $x \to \infty$.
Answer: f'(a) = -\frac{1}{a^2}
Answer: Continuous at $x=0$, but not differentiable at $x=0$.
Answer: The statement is the contrapositive of the theorem that differentiability implies continuity.
Answer: f'(x) = x^2(3\ln(x) + 1)
Answer: g'(x) = \frac{x\cos(x) - 2\sin(x)}{x^3}
Answer: h'(x) = 2x \cos(x^2) e^{\sin(x^2)}
Answer: Differentiable at $x=0$ with $f'(0)=0$, but $f'$ is not continuous at $x=0$.
Answer: n = 3
Answer: 1/\pi
Answer: The series is bounded by the convergent geometric series $\sum (1/3)^n$, ensuring continuity.
Answer: No, the condition does not hold.
Answer: The amplitudes of the derivative terms grow exponentially as $(ab)^n$.
Answer: $c = 1 - \frac{\sqrt{3}}{3}$
Answer: No, Rolle's Theorem does not apply because $f$ is not differentiable at $x=0$.
Answer: Proven by contradiction using Rolle's Theorem.
Answer: c = 4
Answer: 14
Answer: f(x) = C
Answer: $|f(b) - f(a)| \le k|b - a|$
Answer: Increasing on $(-\infty, -1) \cup (1, \infty)$, decreasing on $(-1, 1)$; local max at $x = -1$, local min at $x = 1$.
Answer: $f(x_2) \ge f(x_1)$
Answer: No, it cannot be a derivative because it fails the Intermediate Value Property.
Answer: The existence of $c$ is guaranteed by Darboux's Theorem.
Answer: Since $f'$ cannot change sign without passing through zero, it must be constant in sign, implying strict monotonicity.
Answer: 1/6
Answer: No, the rule is inconclusive because the limit of the derivatives does not exist.
Answer: 0
Answer: $e^x \geq 1 + x$
Answer: Yes, $f$ is differentiable at $x = 0$ with $f'(0) = 0$.
Answer: 5
Answer: L(f, P) = 2.5, U(f, P) = 3.5
Answer: U(f, P) = \frac{(n+1)(2n+1)}{6n^2}, \text{ limit is } 1/3
Answer: \int_a^b C dx = C(b-a)
Answer: The function is integrable with $\int_0^2 f(x) \, dx = 7$.
Answer: The function is integrable because $U - L = 1/n \to 0$ as $n \to \infty$.
Answer: The result follows directly from the definitions of supremum and infimum.
Answer: 1/2
Answer: 1/n
Answer: 1/4
Answer: Yes, it is integrable because it is monotone.
Answer: The difference is bounded by $\epsilon(b-a)$.
Answer: No, a function can be integrable without being monotone or continuous (e.g., a step function with multiple jumps).
Answer: L(f, P) = 0
Answer: \int_0^1 g(x) \, dx = 0
Answer: Yes, it is still integrable.
Answer: 23
Answer: 2.5
Answer: Integrable by comparison property
Answer: 2x \cos(x^2)
Answer: f(x) = 2x
Answer: F'(x) = c
Answer: 14
Answer: 2
Answer: 15 + \ln(2)
Answer: \frac{\pi}{2} - 1
Answer: \frac{1}{3}(e - 1)
Answer: 1
Answer: f_{avg} = \frac{4}{3}, c = \frac{16}{9}
Answer: c = \ln(e-1)
Answer: f_{avg} > 0
Answer: \ln(2)
Answer: Converges
Answer: Diverges
Answer: Yes, it is Riemann integrable.
Answer: Not integrable because the set of discontinuities has measure 1.
Answer: The set of discontinuities of $f+g$ is a subset of the union of the discontinuities of $f$ and $g$, which has measure zero.
Every claim Course 1 used on trust — paid off, one proof at a time.
| Claim | Used in | Paid by | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The limit laws (algebra of limits) | Calculus L15 | L24 | ✓ |
| The squeeze theorem | Calculus L16 | L25 | ✓ |
| (1 + 1/n)^n converges (e exists) | Calculus L23 | L27 | ✓ |
| The Intermediate Value Theorem | Calculus L20 | L62 | ✓ |
| The Extreme Value Theorem (used in optimisation) | Calculus M2 | L61 | ✓ |
| Rolle's theorem and the Mean Value Theorem | Calculus L49-50 | L72 | ✓ |
| Derivative sign controls monotonicity | Calculus L51 | L73 | ✓ |
| L'Hopital's rule | Calculus L47-48 | L75 | ✓ |
| The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus | Calculus L61-62 | L84 | ✓ |
| Integration by parts and substitution | Calculus M3 | L85 | ✓ |
| Term-by-term operations on power series | Calculus L114 | L94 | … |
| 0.999... = 1 | Daily derivation (Track 1) | L19 | ✓ |