Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2019 / ia / Paper 1 / 3E (Analysis I)

The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem states that every bounded sequence of real numbers has a convergent subsequence.

Condition (i) is insufficient because the allowed limit may be zero. For example, $a_n=1/n$ is nonzero and converges to zero, whereas $1/a_n=n$ does not converge in $\mathbb{R}$.

Condition (ii) is sufficient. If $a_n\to \ell \ne 0$, then eventually $|a_n|\ge |\ell |/2$. Thereforeso

Condition (iii) is also sufficient. If $|a_n|$ did not tend to infinity, some $M>0$ would contain infinitely many terms with $|a_n|\le M$. Those terms form a bounded subsequence, and the Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem would give it a convergent subsequence, contrary to the hypothesis. Hence $|a_n|\to \infty$ and