MATHEMATICAL PHYSIOLOGY LIMITS

9/5/97


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MATHEMATICAL PHYSIOLOGY LIMITS

SEQUENCES ARE FUNCTIONS OF AN INTEGRAL VARIABLE

THE LIMIT OF A SEQUENCE

A LIMIT IS AN AGREEMENT ABOUT A CRITEREA

CONVERGENCE TO ZERO

CONVERGENCE TO ZERO

CONVERGENCE

THE NOTION OF “INFINITY”

MONOTONIC SEQUENCES

EXAMPLES OF LIMITS OF SEQUENCES

LIMITING BEHAVIOR OF THE GEOMETRIC SEQUENCE

SOME SPECIAL LIMITS

SERIES

THE GEOMETRIC SERIES

PARTIAL SUMS OF THE GEOMETRIC SERIES

SUM OF THE GEOMETRIC SERIES

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONVERGENCE OF SERIES AND SEQUENCES

TESTS FOR CONVERGENCE

COMPARISON TEST

RATIO TEST

LIMITS OF FUNCTIONS

DIVERGENT

CONVERGENT TO ZERO

CONVERGENT TO A FINITE LIMIT A

THE CONCEPT OF CONTINUITY OF A FUNCTION

CONTINUITY AT A POINT

CONTINUITY ON AN INTERVAL

UNIFORM CONTINUITY

POINTS OF DISCONTINUITY

AT A POINT OF DISCONTINUITY THE LIMIT OF A FUNCTION MAY DEPEND ON THE DIRECTION OF APPROACH

THEOREMS ON CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS

SOME THEOREMS ON LIMITS

EXAMPLE OF USE OF THEOREMS ON LIMITS

A VERY IMPORTANT LIMIT

THE DERIVATIVE OF f(x)

Author: Donald C. Mikulecky

Email: mikulecky@gems.vcu.edu

Home Page: http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/