Continuous vs Discrete Variables - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Dec 14, 2025 · Both discrete and continuous variables generally do have changing values—and a discrete variable can vary continuously with time. I am quite aware that discrete variables are those …
Continuous group actions - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Dec 18, 2025 · I was recently going through General Topology by N. Bourbaki, and found the following definition of topological groups acting continuously on topological spaces (slightly rephrased) : A …
Showing that $\arctan$ is continuous - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Jan 5, 2016 · As such, $\arctan$ is continuous. If you define $\arctan$ by integrals or power series the result is immediate (the first by the Lipshitz continuity of the indefinite integral and the second from …
real analysis - Midpoint-convexity and continuity implies convexity ...
Apr 1, 2025 · It's more correct to say that he proved Jensen's Inequality (with arbitrary real weights) for functions which are midpoint convex and continuous. Of course, Jensen's Inequality with two …
calculus - Are all continuous one one functions differentiable ...
Apr 14, 2015 · Which is continuous and one-to-one on $\mathbb R$, but is not differentiable at $0$. This is of course just one example, but in general, any time you "stick" two functions together at a point …
Prove that the function $\sqrt x$ is uniformly continuous on $\ {x\in ...
Nov 17, 2013 · @user1742188 It follows from Heine-Cantor Theorem, that a continuous function over a compact set (In the case of $\mathbb {R}$, compact sets are closed and bounded) is uniformly …
Can a discontinuous function have a continuous derivative?
Jan 30, 2024 · Can a discontinuous function have a continuous derivative? Ask Question Asked 2 years, 1 month ago Modified 2 years, 1 month ago
real analysis - Prove that every convex function is continuous ...
The authors prove the proposition that every proper convex function defined on a finite-dimensional separated topological linear space is continuous on the interior of its effective domain. You can likely …
Meaning of the continuous spectrum and the residual spectrum
Jan 8, 2017 · The reason one refers to this as "continuous spectrum" Historically had nothing to do with continuity; such spectrum was found to fill a continuum, rather than being discrete.
real analysis - How do I show that all continuous periodic functions ...
Apr 30, 2014 · Show that every continuous periodic function is bounded and uniformly continuous. For boundedness, I first tried to show that since the a periodic function is continuous, it is continuous for …