Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ia Paper 1 12D ii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
The PDF defines this function using ; the converted TeX contains a conflicting duplicate before its later correct version. Use the PDF function. It is bounded by one and continuous at every positive , although it is discontinuous at zero. Indeed the sequences and tend to zero with function values and .
That single discontinuity does not prevent Riemann integrability. Given , choose . The cell contributes at most to the difference between the upper Darboux sum and the lower Darboux sum. On the function is uniformly continuous, so choose a partition there whose oscillation sum is less than , by the introductory proof. Joining that partition to the cell givesThus the PDF's function is Riemann integrable despite its endpoint discontinuity. This is a direct application of bounded functions continuous away from one endpoint are Riemann integrable, proved here with the actual oscillation bound rather than an improper-integral argument.