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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ib Paper 4 3F Solution by
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The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem in says that every bounded real sequence has a convergent subsequence. For a bounded sequence in , successively extract subsequences on which the first, second, and so on through the th coordinate converge. The final diagonal subsequence converges in Euclidean space, proving the theorem in .
Put . Suppose the asserted did not exist. Then there would be and with but . Since is closed and bounded, Bolzano-Weierstrass gives a subsequence , and then . The point is not in , because otherwise , so has continuity at . Both and tend to , a contradiction. Hence the required uniform exists.
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