Remarks on `Riemann's example' \(\sum_{n=1}^ \infty {\sin n^ 2x\over n^ 2}\) of a continuous, non-differentiable function (Q1358745)

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Remarks on `Riemann's example' \(\sum_{n=1}^ \infty {\sin n^ 2x\over n^ 2}\) of a continuous, non-differentiable function
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    Remarks on `Riemann's example' \(\sum_{n=1}^ \infty {\sin n^ 2x\over n^ 2}\) of a continuous, non-differentiable function (English)
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    11 November 1997
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    According to Weierstraß Riemann had claimed in his lectures of 1861 that this function was non-differentiable on a dense point set. New sources confirm that both Weierstraß and Kronecker gave proofs, and back up the Riemannian origin of the function. Also, the author gives a proof in the style of Riemann, using information on the growth of the theta series at the boundary of its domain of convergence, as found in a fragment by Riemann.
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    non-differentiability
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    theta series
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    Riemann
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    Kronecker
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    Weierstraß
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