On Scottish Book problem 157

DOI10.14321/REALANALEXCH.41.2.0331MaRDI QIDQ1704515zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paul D. Humke, Trevor Richards, Kevin Beanland

Publication date 12 March 2018

Published in Real Analysis Exchange (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06692, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rae/1490839335

zbMATH Keywords

approximate continuityapproximate derivatemonotoneScottish Book problem 157

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiation (real functions of one variable): general theory, generalized derivatives, mean value theorems (26A24) Monotonic functions, generalizations (26A48)

Abstract: This paper describes our hunt for the solver of Problem 157 in the Scottish Book, a problem originally posed by A.~J. (Gus) Ward in 1937. We first make the observation that a theorem of Richard O'Malley from 1975 yields an immediate positive solution. A further look at O'Malley's references revealed a 1970 paper by Donald Ornstein that we now believe contains the first solution of {em SB 157}. We isolate the common elements in the machinery used by both Ornstein and O'Malley and discuss several consequences. We also examine an example function given by Ornstein. There are some difficulties with this function but we provide a fix, and show moreover that functions of that kind are typical in the sense of the Baire category theorem.

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