Introduction to Infinitesimal Analysis - Functions of one real variable

N. J. (Nels Johann) Lennes, Oswald Veblen

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Title: Introduction to Infinitesimal Analysis Functions of one real variable

Author: Oswald Veblen and N. J. Lennes

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INTRODUCTION TO INFINITESIMAL ANALYSIS

FUNCTIONS OF ONE REAL VARIABLE

BY OSWALD VEBLEN Preceptor in Mathematics, Princeton University And N. J. LENNES Instructor in Mathematics in the Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago

FIRST EDITION FIRST THOUSAND

NEW YORK JOHN WILEY & SONS London: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limited 1907

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Copyright, 1907 by OSWALD VEBLEN and N. J. LENNES

ROBERT DRUMMOND, PRINTER, NEW YORK

PREFACE

A course dealing with the fundamental theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner is now recognized as an essential part of the training of a mathematician. It appears in the curriculum of nearly every university, and is taken by students as “Advanced Calculus” in their last collegiate year, or as part of “Theory of Functions” in the first year of graduate work. This little volume is designed as a convenient reference book for such courses; the examples which may be considered necessary being supplied from other sources. The book may also be used as a basis for a rather short theoretical course on real functions, such as is now given from time to time in some of our universities. The general aim has been to obtain rigor of logic with a minimum of elaborate machin ery. It is hoped that the systematic use of the HeineBorel theorem has helped materially toward this end, since by means of this theorem it is possible to avoid almost entirely the sequential division or “pinching” process so common in discussions of this kind. The definition of a limit by means of the notion “value approached” has simplified the proofs of theorems, such as those giving necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of limits, and in general has largely decreased the number ofε’s andδtheory of limits’s. The is developed for multiplevalued functions, which gives certain advantages in the treatment of the definite integral. In each chapter the more abstract subjects and those which can be omitted on a first reading are placed in the concluding sections. The last chapter of the book is more advanced in character than the other chapters and is intended as an introduction to the study of a special subject. The index at the end of the book contains references to the pages where technical terms are first defined. When this work was undertaken there was no convenient source in English containing a rigorous and systematic treatment of the body of theorems usually included in even an elementary course on real functions, and it was necessary to refer to the French and German treatises. Since then one treatise, at least, has appeared in English on the Theory of Functions of Real Variables. Nevertheless it is hoped that the present volume, on account of its conciseness, will supply a real want. The authors are much indebted to Professor E. H. Moore of the University of Chicago for many helpful criticisms and suggestions; to Mr. E. B. Morrow of Princeton University for reading the manuscript and helping prepare the cuts; and to Professor G. A. Bliss of Princeton, who has suggested several desirable changes while reading the proofsheets.

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Contents

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THE SYSTEM OF REAL NUMBERS. §and Irrational Numbers.1 Rational . . . . . . §of Continuity.2 Axiom . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Addition and Multiplication of Irrationals.. §Remarks on the Number System.4 General . §for the Real Number System.5 Axioms . . . . §6 The Numbere.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §and Transcendental Numbers.7 Algebraic . . §8 The Transcendence ofe.. . . . . . . . . . . §Transcendence of9 The π.. . . . . . . . . . .

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SETS OF POINTS AND OF SEGMENTS. §1 Correspondence of Numbers and Points.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §2 Segments and Intervals. Theorem of Borel.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §of Weierstrass.Points. Theorem 3 Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §4 Second Proof of Theorem 15.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

FUNCTIONS IN GENERAL. SPECIAL CLASSES OF FUNCTIONS. §1 Definition of a Function.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Functions.2 Bounded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Monotonic Functions; Inverse Functions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Exponential, and Logarithmic Functions.4 Rational, . . . . . . . . . . . . .

THEORY OF LIMITS. §Limits of Monotonic Functions.1 Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §2 The Existence of Limits.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Application to Infinite Series.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §4 Infinitesimals. Computation of Limits.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Theorems on Limits.5 Further . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Oscillation.of Indetermination. 6 Bounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS. §1 Continuity at a Point.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §2 Continuity of a Function on an Interval.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Functions Continuous on an Everywhere Dense Set.. . . . . . . . . . . . . §4 The Exponential Function.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

INFINITESIMALS AND INFINITES. §Order of a Function at a Point.1 The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Limit of a Quotient.2 The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Indeterminate Forms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §of Infinitesimals and Infinites.4 Rank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DERIVATIVES AND DIFFERENTIALS. §1 Definition and Illustration of Derivatives.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §2 Formulas of Differentiation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Differential Notations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §4 Meanvalue Theorems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §5 Taylor’s Series.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §6 Indeterminate Forms.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Theorems on Derivatives.7 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DEFINITE INTEGRALS. §of the Definite Integral.1 Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §2 Integrability of Functions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §3 Computation of Definite Integrals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Properties of Definite Integrals.4 Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Definite Integral as a Function of the Limits of Integration.5 The . . . . . . §6 Integration by Parts and by Substitution.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . §Conditions for Integrability.7 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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IMPROPER DEFINITE INTEGRALS.153 §1 The Improper Definite Integral on a Finite Interval.153. . . . . . . . . . . . . §Definite Integral on an Infinite Interval.2 The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 §of the Simple Improper Definite Integral.3 Properties 164. . . . . . . . . . . . . §More General Improper Integral.4 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 §5 Existence of Improper Definite Integrals on a Finite Interval. . . . . . . . 174 §of Improper Definite Integrals on the Infinite Interval6 Existence . . . . . . 178

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THE SYSTEM NUMBERS.

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Rational and Irrational Numbers.

The real number system may be classified as follows:

(1) All integral numbers, both positive and negative, including zero.

m (2) All numbers , wheremandnare integers (n6= 0). n √ 1 (3) Numbers not included in either of the above classes, such as 2 andπ.

Numbers of classes(1)and(2)are called rational or commensurable numbers, while the numbers of class(3)are called irrational or incommensurable numbers. As an illustration of an irrational number consider the square root of 2. One ordinarily √ says that 2 is 1.4+, or 1.41+, or 1.414+, etc. The exact meaning of these statements is 2 expressed by the following inequalities:

2 2 (1.4)<2<(1.5), 2 2 (1.41)<2<(1.42), 2 2 (1.414)<2<(1.415), etc.

Moreover, by the footnote above no terminating decimal is equal to the square root of 2. Hence Horner’s Method, or the usual algorithm for extracting the square root, leads to an

2 2 1 m m m 22 2 It is clear that there is no number such that 2 = 2, for if 2 = 2, thenm= 2n, wherem n n n 2 2 and 2nare integral numbers, and 2nis the square of the integral numberm. Since in the square of an integral number every prime factor occurs an even number of times, the factor 2 must occur an even 2 2 number of times both innand 2n, which is impossible because of the theorem that an integral number has only one set of prime factors. 2 a < bsignifies thatais less thanb.a > bsignifies thatais greater thanb.

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