
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 …
Difference between continuity and uniform continuity
Jan 27, 2014 · To understand the difference between continuity and uniform continuity, it is useful to think of a particular example of a function that's continuous on $\mathbb R$ but not uniformly …
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 …
Is every continuously differentiable function also absolutely continuous?
Mar 6, 2021 · If it's continuously differentiable then it's continuous. All continuous functions are absolutely continuous on a compact set.
Can a function have partial derivatives, be continuous but not be ...
Sep 18, 2020 · By differentiability theorem if partial derivatives exist and are continuous in a neighborhood of the point then (i.e. sufficient condition) the function is differentiable at that point.
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.
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 …
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 …
Graphing Continuous Functions - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Jul 14, 2012 · My question is How do I graph a continuous function when I am only given restrictions? For example, Sketch the graph of a function that is continuous everywhere except at x=3, and is …