Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2007 ib Paper 2 13H Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
For the first assertion, fix and . By uniform convergence, choose such that for every . By continuity of at , there is such that whenever . The triangle inequality then givesThus a uniform limit of continuous functions is continuous, including at the endpoints with their relative neighborhoods.
The converse implication involving integrals is false. Set and, for , use the shrinking continuous spikes with vanishing integralTheir supports are . For each they eventually vanish at , and they vanish at zero for every . Hence pointwise, with continuous limit. Each triangular area is , so . Yet , excluding uniform convergence.
The final assertion is also false. Take . Then the pointwise limit isThis limit is discontinuous at one but is Riemann integrable, with integral zero. Each is continuous and . Thus convergence of the integrals to the integral of an integrable pointwise limit does not enforce its continuity.