Saw in :
- A monotonic increasing sequence bounded above converges to its supremum.
- ditto for monotonically decreasing sequences.
For a monotonic sequence ,
converges is bounded.
The proof is clear.
Proof for the direction:
Assume is monotonically increasing (same proof works for monotonically decreasing ).
Then, is a lower bound.
then is upper bound
this is easy to check. Use definition of convergence.
Rudin, 3.2
defined open ball, neighborhood
is bounded if there exists such that is a subset of a ball.
Cauchy sequenecs
Every cauchy sequence converges
Proof plan
- show cauchy imples bounded
- find monotonic subseq in cuchy subseq
Every infinite bounded seq has a cnovergent subsequence.