CALCULUS Understanding
Its Concepts and Methods
CALCULUS Understanding
Its Concepts and Methods
Continuous
A function f, defined on a set S of real numbers, is continuous at a point c of S if
(intuitive) the graph of
f
doesn't jump at
c.
(in words) we can make
f(x)
as close as we want to
f(c)
simply by choosing
x
in
S
close enough to
c.
(limits) limx→c f(x) = f(c)
(symbolic) for each ε > 0 there is a δ such that, for each x in S , if |x - c| < δ, then |f(x) - f(c)| < ε.
The function f is continuous on S if it is continuous at each point of S.
A function
f defined on a set
S
of points
(x, y)
is continuous at a point
(c, d)
of
S
if
In other words, we can make | f(x, y) - f(c, d) | small by making the distance
sufficiently small.
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