Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2021/ia/paper-2/12f/iii/solution

Because is continuous on the compact interval , it is uniformly continuous and bounded; write . Given , choose such that
Then
The bound is independent of . Taking the supremum, then , gives a limit superior at most . Since is arbitrary,
This is the Bernstein polynomial proof of the Weierstrass approximation theorem.

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