Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/ia/paper-1/12d/ii/solution

Put . At an interior point and for small enough,
By continuity at , the modulus is bounded by the supremum of between and , which tends to zero. Thus the fundamental theorem of calculus gives
At the interval endpoints the same argument supplies the corresponding one-sided derivatives.
For an integrable discontinuous function, the single-point spike from part (i) has , so ; this disproves the derivative identity even when the primitive is differentiable. To see that differentiability itself may fail, take the step function for and for . It is Riemann integrable, but its primitive is and has left derivative zero and right derivative one at . Hence the full assertion is false for general Riemann-integrable functions.

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