Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-62/1/d/solution

The Weierstrass approximation theorem states that the polynomials are a dense subspace of in the supremum norm. By linearity and (c), uniformly for every polynomial . Given and , choose a polynomial with . The operator norm estimate in (a) gives
First let , then . Hence for every continuous . This is an instance of extension of approximation operators from a dense subspace.

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