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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2008 ia Paper 1 4E Solution by
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Fix . For any sufficiently small nonzero , the additivity of the Riemann integral givesTaking 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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