Suppose a series of functions has uniform absolute convergence on and is a uniformly bounded family of functions there, with common bound . The triangle inequality givesThe right-hand side tends uniformly to zero as . The Uniform Cauchy criterion proves uniform convergence of . Applying the same estimate to proves uniform absolute convergence too.
For real-valued functions, the Uniform Cauchy criterion applied to partial sums says that has uniform convergence exactly whenSufficiency uses completeness of the real numbers.
Let be a common bound for the uniformly bounded family of functions ; increase it if necessary so that . The assumed uniform absolute convergence of gives such thatThe triangle inequality now yieldsThe Uniform Cauchy criterion therefore proves uniform convergence of . The same estimate with proves uniform absolute convergence as well.
Use uniform convergence to choose with for all and ; this follows, for example, from the Uniform Cauchy criterion. Since each is a bounded function, put for . Thenfor every and . Thus is a uniformly bounded family of functions. The finite initial segment is essential: uniform convergence directly controls only a tail of a sequence.