Continuity of inversion in a Banach algebra ($a\mapsto a^{-1}$)

Inversion is continuous on the group of invertible elements of a Banach algebra. The Neumann series gives a local bound on inverse norms, while $b^{-1}-a^{-1}=b^{-1}(a-b)a^{-1}$ makes the difference tend to zero as $b\to a$.