Wednesday, 3 April 2019

calculus - Prove limxrightarrow0fracsin(x)x=1 with the epsilon-delta definition of limit.



It is well known that



limx0sin(x)x=1




I know several proofs of this: the geometric proof shows that cos(θ)sin(θ)θ1 and using the Squeeze Theorem I conclude that limx0sin(x)x=1, other proof uses the Maclaurin series of sin(x). My question is: is there a demonstration of this limit using the epsilon-delta definition of limit?


Answer



Here is a more direct answer for this: Since cosθ<sinθθ<1, one can get
|sinθθ1|<1cosθ.
But 1cosθ=2sin2θ2θ22 and hence
|sinθθ1|θ22.
Now it is easy to use εδ definition to get the answer.


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