[Math] Using negation of formal limit definition

calculus

Using the following definition:

$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to a} f(x) \ne L \iff $ there exists $\varepsilon > 0$ such that for all $\delta > 0$ such that for some $x \ne a$ we have $\left| {x – a} \right| < \delta $ yet $ \left| {f(x) – L} \right| \ge \varepsilon $

Prove that:

$$\mathop {\lim }\limits_{x \to 2}\; (x + 3) \ne 4$$
but, I don't want $\varepsilon$ to equal some fixed value, I want to find the greatest value for $\varepsilon$ that proves this.

Also, is there any textbooks or any online resource discussing this negation with a lot of details and examples?

Thanks in advance

Best Answer

Choose $\;\epsilon =1\;$ , and now we have that

$$|x+3-4|=|x-1|\ge 1\iff\begin{cases}x-1\ge 1\iff x\ge 2&,\;or\\{}\\x-1\le-1\iff x\le 0\end{cases}$$

Thus, for any $\;\delta >0\;$ , even if it is very small, take $\;x\ge 2\;$ s.t. $\;x-2<\delta\;$ , and then, as seen above, $\;|(x+3)-4|\ge 1\;\ldots$

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