A function is uniformly continuous if for every there is such that
for all .
Suppose uniformly and every is uniformly continuous. Given , choose such that
for every . Uniform continuity of supplies such that implies
The triangle inequality then gives . Thus the uniform limit theorem for uniformly continuous functions proves that is uniformly continuous.
Pointwise convergence is insufficient. On , the uniformly continuous functions converge pointwise to
which is discontinuous and therefore not uniformly continuous.