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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 2 11F a Solution by
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For , define its Bernstein polynomialIf , thenLet . By uniform continuity, for any choose such that whenever . Splitting the expectation according to that event and using Chebyshev's inequality gives, uniformly in ,For sufficiently large this is below . Thus uniformly on . An affine change of variable treats every compact interval, proving the Weierstrass approximation theorem.
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