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- I need help with an aspect of Andrew Browder's proof that the composition of two continuous functions is continuous ...
I am reading Andrew Browder's book: "Mathematical Analysis: An Introduction" ... ...
I am currently reading Chapter 3: Continuous Functions on Intervals and am currently focused on Section 3.1 Limits and Continuity ... ...
I need some help in understanding the proof of Proposition 3.12 ...Proposition 3.12 and its proof read as follows:
In the above proof by Browder we read the following:
" ... ... Since ##f(I) \subset J##, ##f^{ -1 } ( g^{ -1 }(V) ) = f^{ -1 } (U) \cap f^{ -1 } (J) = f^{ -1 } (U)## ... ... "My question is as follows:
Can someone please explain exactly why/how ##f^{ -1 } (U) \cap f^{ -1 } (J) = f^{ -1 } (U)## ... ...
Help will be much appreciated ...
Peter
I am currently reading Chapter 3: Continuous Functions on Intervals and am currently focused on Section 3.1 Limits and Continuity ... ...
I need some help in understanding the proof of Proposition 3.12 ...Proposition 3.12 and its proof read as follows:
" ... ... Since ##f(I) \subset J##, ##f^{ -1 } ( g^{ -1 }(V) ) = f^{ -1 } (U) \cap f^{ -1 } (J) = f^{ -1 } (U)## ... ... "My question is as follows:
Can someone please explain exactly why/how ##f^{ -1 } (U) \cap f^{ -1 } (J) = f^{ -1 } (U)## ... ...
Help will be much appreciated ...
Peter