Another form of convergence, uniform convergence, is defined and described in this module. Also, its relationship to pointwise convergence is also shown.
Uniform convergence of function sequences
For this discussion, we will only consider functions with
where
Uniform Convergence
The
sequence
converges uniformly to function
if for every
there is an integer
such that
implies
for
all
.
Obviously every uniformly convergent sequence is
pointwise convergent. The
difference between pointwise and uniform convergence is this:If
converges pointwise to
, then for every
and for every
there is an integer
depending on
and
such
that
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. If
converges uniformly to
, it is
possible for each
to find
one integer
that will do for all
.
Let
be given. Then choose
. Obviously,
for all
. Thus,
converges uniformly to
.