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fn (a) → 0. We may therefore take f(a)=0.This proves the point-

wise convergence of fn to the constant function 0.

Is the convergence uniform? Look at Figure 7.10 .The picture shows

that it is not.

Figure 7.10: Graph of fn (x) in item 1 of Example 7.3.5

Let us prove this rigorously. Let us assume that the convergence
is uniform.Let =1/2. Then there exists N ∈ N such that for all
x ∈ R , we have |fk (x)| < 1 if k ≥ N . In particular, if we take k=N
and x=N+1, then fN (N + 1) = N > 1/2 , a contradiction. Hence
the convergence is not uniform.