这一节开始讲实际的极限,建立metric概念(其实是实直线上的标准度量)和极限算律,从这一章起,内容与普通实分析差异不大,但由于有第2-5章的基础,从这章开始的进度是明显加快的,其后只用6章就把单变量微积分的严格构建以及实数型级数介绍完毕,还附带说了一些集合论的东西(第8章),由此可以看出基础打得好的作用,如果前面做题扎实,从第6章开始读完Analysis I的感觉应该是基本上每个概念都很清晰。本章起习题有所增加,且相对常规化,但仍都值得一做。
Exercise 6.1.1. Let
be a sequence of real numbers, such that
for each natural number
. Prove that whenever
and
are natural numbers such that
, then we have
. (We refer to these sequences as increasing sequences.)
Solution: Given
fixed and we induct on
:
For
, we have
by condition given.
Suppose
and
, then for
, we have
, thus the induction hypothesis is valid.
Exercise 6.1.2. Let
be a sequence of real numbers, and let
be a real number. Show that
converges to
if and only if, given any
, one can find an
such that
for all
.
Solution:

Exercise 6.1.3. Let
be a sequence of real numbers, let
be a real number, and let
be an integer. Show that
converges to
if and only if
converges to
.
Solution: Use Exercise 6.1.2 we have

The other direction is easy since any
we’ll have
.
Exercise 6.1.4. Let
be a sequence of real numbers, let
be a real number, and let
be a non-negative integer. Show that
converges to
if and only if
converges to
. Solution:
converges to
means

Thus if
, then
, thus
, so
converges to
. Conversely, if
converges to
, then

Let
, then if
we have
, so
converges to
.
Exercise 6.1.5. Prove Proposition 6.1.12.
Solution: For
, let
, then
, thus if
,

This means
is a Cauchy sequence.
Exercise 6.1.6. Prove Proposition 6.1.15.
Solution: We assume
is not eventually
-close to
, then first there’s a
such that

Next, we can find a
such that

Let
, use both results we can have

This means for all
, either
or
, by Exercise 5.4.8, we shall have
or
, both leads to a contradiction.
Exercise 6.1.7. Show that Definition 6.1.16 is consistent with Definition 5.1.12.
Solution: We have to show the following result is true:
Let
be a sequence of rational numbers starting at some integer index
, then
is bounded in the sense of Definition 6.1.16 iff
is bounded in the sense of Definition 5.1.12.
We first suppose
is bounded in the sense of Definition 6.1.16, i.e.
, s.t.

As
is a positive real, we can have a positive integer (thus rational)
such that
, so we can have

This shows that
is bounded in the sense of Definition 5.1.12.
On the other hand, suppose
is bounded in the sense of Definition 5.1.12. Then we can find a rational
such that

Since
is also a real number, we get the result directly.
Exercise 6.1.8. Prove Theorem 6.1.19.
Solution: We let
: then have

Further, convergent sequences are bounded, so we have
, and

( a ) The result comes from

( b ) We have, for all
:

( c ) Let
and use (b).
( d ) From (c) we can get

And then use (b) to get the result.
( e ) Since
, we know that there’s
such that

Which means when 

As
, we show that
is bounded away from
, so there’s 

Thus

( f ) We use the notation of
in (e), then

( g ) If
, then
and
are equivalent Cauchy sequence, thus when
:

Which means

Now assume
, then there’s 

Which will lead to

So that
, using Exercise 6.1.3 we know that

( h ) A similar proof like (g) can be made by the same logic.
Exercise 6.1.9. Explain why Theorem 6.1.19(f) fails when the limit of the denominator is 0.
Solution: Let
and
, then by Proposition 6.1.11:

But
, so the expression
is meaningless.
Exercise 6.1.10. Show that the concept of equivalent Cauchy sequence, as defined in Definition 5.2.6, does not change if
is required to be positive real instead of positive rational. More precisely, if
and
are sequences of reals, show that
and
are eventually
-close for every rational
if and only if they are eventually
-close for every real
.
Solution: Eventually
-close for every real
implies eventually
-close for every rational
.
To prove the converse, suppose
and
are eventually
-close for every rational
, then given any real
, we can have a rational
such that
, and an integer
s.t.

This means
and
are eventually
-close.