Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 ii Paper 2 11F d Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
For and rational , every admits withConsequentlyBy the Cauchy-Hadamard theorem, the Taylor series of at has radius of convergence zero.
Suppose some Taylor series represented throughout a neighborhood of a point . That neighborhood contains a rational . A function represented locally by a convergent power series is a real analytic function, and re-expanding that series about gives the Taylor series of at a positive radius of convergence. This contradicts the preceding conclusion. Thus agrees with no Taylor series on a neighborhood of any point; it is a nowhere-analytic generic smooth function.