Definition of uniform convergence:
For all $\epsilon > 0$, there exists an $N \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $d(f_n(x), f(x)) < \epsilon$ for all $n > N \in \mathbb{N}$ and all $x \in (0,1)$.
It's easy to see that for all $x$, $f_n(x) \to 0$ on $(0, 1)$ which means that $f_n$ is pointwise convergent, but since $f_n$ converges pointwise to $0$ for all $x$, I don't see any counter-examples that we can take $x$ to be in order for $f_n$ to converge to any other limit besides $0$. I also don't see how we can use the definition in order to prove that $f_n$ is not uniformly convergent. In this case, what should I do?
Best Answer
Hint. You have $$\sup_{x\in(0,1)}f_n(x)=1.$$