Definition For Functions On Metric Spaces
Given metric spaces (X, d1) and (Y, d2), a function f : X → Y is called uniformly continuous if for every real number ε > 0 there exists δ > 0 such that for every x, y ∈ X with d1(x, y) < δ, we have that d2(f(x), f(y)) < ε.
If X and Y are subsets of the real numbers, d1 and d2 can be the standard Euclidean norm, || · ||, yielding the definition: for all ε > 0 there exists a δ > 0 such that for all x, y ∈ X, |x − y| < δ implies |f(x) − f(y)| < ε.
The difference between being uniformly continuous, and simply being continuous at every point, is that in uniform continuity the value of δ depends only on ε and not on the point in the domain.
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