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.