Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2008/ia/paper-1/4e/solution

Fix . For any sufficiently small nonzero , the additivity of the Riemann integral gives
Taking absolute values, for either sign of ,
Because is continuous at , the right side tends to zero. Thus the fundamental theorem of calculus here follows directly from the difference quotient:
Only continuity at the point under consideration was used.
Without continuity, the assertion is false. Take the Riemann integrable step function for and for . Its primitive is for and for . The left and right difference quotients at are respectively zero and one, so the primitive need not be differentiable at every interior point. A function with this single jump is Riemann integrable; changing its value at the jump does not change the integral or the counterexample.

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