the most interesting proof of L'Hospital's Theorem!!

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 49

  • @aidarosullivan5269
    @aidarosullivan5269 Місяць тому +66

    Despite having a PhD degree in theoretical physics, the delta-epsilon notation still makes me as uneasy as some sophomore. Thanks for the neat visualization!

    • @magnussundberg8980
      @magnussundberg8980 Місяць тому +5

      A PhD in electrodynamics also doesn’t help! 😅

    • @geojoyson3747
      @geojoyson3747 Місяць тому

      So relatable bro

    • @geojoyson3747
      @geojoyson3747 Місяць тому

      So relatable bro

    • @xinpingdonohoe3978
      @xinpingdonohoe3978 Місяць тому +2

      Really? I find it comforting. If it appears somewhere, it's coming back to known territory in what could be a new subject. It tells me that it's not so different.

    • @spiderjerusalem4009
      @spiderjerusalem4009 Місяць тому

      using logical symbols make it easier
      (X,dᵪ), (Y,dᵧ) two metric pairs,
      E⊂X, f:E➝Y,
      N(z, ε)={p∈X | dᵪ(z,p)0,∃δ>0,∀x∈N'(x₀, δ)∩E:
      dᵧ(f(x), y) < ϵ.
      One thing to keep in mind is that nearly every implication can be rephrased in terms of quantifiers and vice versa, for instance:
      x∈Ω ⇒ (P(x) true)
      is the same as saying
      ∀x∈Ω : (P(x) true)
      This realization alone boosted my analysis study, something i wish i'd taken notice much earlier

  • @BikeArea
    @BikeArea Місяць тому +14

    Rule of Hospital: Never fail executing a backflip! 😮

  • @gravitas802
    @gravitas802 Місяць тому +8

    It is extremely cool to just use FTC, triangle ineq, and basic math to push the epsilon proof straight through to the antiderivative, HOWEVER it is worth noting that g' nonzero in a neighborhood of infinity is an incredibly strong condition!

    • @TheEternalVortex42
      @TheEternalVortex42 Місяць тому +1

      LH seems to need g'(x) to be nonzero in a neighborhood of the limit point? Or how else would it work?

    • @coc235
      @coc235 Місяць тому

      It's not that strong, all it means is that g is eventually monotonous

    • @andrea-mj9ce
      @andrea-mj9ce Місяць тому +1

      ​​@@coc235 The limit of g being 0 doesn't imply that g is monotonous after some point

  • @proudirani
    @proudirani Місяць тому +1

    This was a real nifty one! Thank you!

  • @Qermaq
    @Qermaq Місяць тому +6

    L'Hospital had the s removed while he was in... well they didn't have a name for the place yet.

    • @richardcarnegie777
      @richardcarnegie777 Місяць тому

      The letters “os” in some French words is sometimes equivalent to “ô”, so the “s” is missing in “l’Hôpital”

  • @divyakumar8147
    @divyakumar8147 Місяць тому

    awesome proof,thanks for the video

  • @tolberthobson2610
    @tolberthobson2610 Місяць тому +1

    The one thing I dont understand is it was never proven/shown an "M" exists s.t. for all x,t > M the absolute value of the difference between the function and the limit is less than epsilon?
    We showed it was for some t > M, but we dont know M exists or is finite??

    • @xinpingdonohoe3978
      @xinpingdonohoe3978 Місяць тому +22

      The assumption was that f'(x)/g'(x)→L. By definition, that means each ε>0 must have a choice of M to go with it.

  • @get2113
    @get2113 Місяць тому

    Very nice eps delta proof for students to study.

  • @SonVu-rw9hh
    @SonVu-rw9hh Місяць тому +1

    Is the proof in Spivak book considered as standard? It only claimed that lim f'(x)/g'(x) exist and lim f(x)=g(x)=0.

    • @MichaelRothwell1
      @MichaelRothwell1 Місяць тому

      I'm sure that these are not the only conditions for applying l'Hôpital's rule in Spivak's book, for the result would then be false. What we typically require in this case (0/0 indeterminate limit taken as x→∞) is:
      1. f & g are differentiable from a certain point on
      2. g' is never zero from a certain point on
      3. lim(x→∞)f(x)=lim(x→∞)g(x)=0
      4. lim(x→∞)f'(x)/g'(x) exists, or is ∞ or -∞
      If these conditions are satisfied, then lim(x→∞)f(x)/g(x) exists, or is ∞ or -∞, and lim(x→∞)f(x)/g(x)=lim(x→∞)f'(x)/g'(x)

  • @jacemandt
    @jacemandt Місяць тому

    If this proof requires that g'(x) (eventually) not be zero, why don't we have to check that condition every time we want to use L'Hospital's rule?

    • @jacemandt
      @jacemandt Місяць тому

      Indeed, Michael's graph showing what the epsilon means, actually demonstrates how a function like g(x) can approach zero as required by the theorem, and yet still equal zero infinitely often, which seems to violate this ≠0 condition. What am I missing here?

    • @MichaelRothwell1
      @MichaelRothwell1 Місяць тому

      ​@@jacemandtWhat Michael proved was not l'Hôpital's rule, but a weakened version. The standard theorem only requires that g'(x) be non-zero after a certain point, and doesn't require g'(x) to be continuous. The extra conditions were added here so that this simple proof would work.

  • @alexgoldhaber1786
    @alexgoldhaber1786 Місяць тому

    I couldn't resist the video title.

  • @goodplacetostop2973
    @goodplacetostop2973 Місяць тому +23

    10:01

  • @marc-andredesrosiers523
    @marc-andredesrosiers523 Місяць тому

    Nice proof indeed

  • @asherang7
    @asherang7 Місяць тому +5

    hospital?

    • @A_Turtle_outside
      @A_Turtle_outside Місяць тому +11

      Yes because this proof is a killer

    • @TomFarrell-p9z
      @TomFarrell-p9z Місяць тому +1

      @@A_Turtle_outside LOL!

    • @TomFarrell-p9z
      @TomFarrell-p9z Місяць тому +4

      The 's' is silent in this old French name. It's probably best written without the s, but with a "carrot" over the o. In American math books it is often written l'hopital, which is how it is pronounced.

    • @Bodyknock
      @Bodyknock Місяць тому +5

      The name can apparently be spelled both with or without the S. His original spelling was L’Hospital, but modern French spellings of names drop the silent S so L’Hôpital also works (with the accent over the ô).

    • @jeroenvandorp
      @jeroenvandorp Місяць тому +3

      @@TomFarrell-p9z accent circonflexe 😀😜

  • @robshaw2639
    @robshaw2639 Місяць тому

    7:36 why do f(x) and g(x) go to 0 as x goes to infinity? They are general functions

    • @madeofmarble8514
      @madeofmarble8514 Місяць тому +9

      it's one of our assumptions at the beginning

    • @yousefalharbi1134
      @yousefalharbi1134 Місяць тому +4

      Since the L'Hopital rule is applied to the indeterminate forms 0 over 0 and the same for inf over inf , the latter can be considered with flipping the denominator and nomirator . Which yields the interval as shown and makes the functions 0 at infinity

    • @robertveith6383
      @robertveith6383 Місяць тому

      ​@@yousefalharbi1134 -- * denominator and *numerator*

    • @Hiltok
      @Hiltok Місяць тому

      If they don't go to zero (nor infinity) then L f/g = L f / L g.
      Le'Hopital's rule is all about handling the cases where f & g both go to zero (as here) or infinity which cannot be resolved without L'H's rule since 0/0 and inf/inf aren't in the real numbers.

    • @Hiltok
      @Hiltok Місяць тому

      The Wikipedia article on L'Hôpital's_rule does a good job of showing the necessary conditions.

  • @briangronberg6507
    @briangronberg6507 Місяць тому +2

    Fantastic proof

  • @brendanward2991
    @brendanward2991 Місяць тому +4

    And that's a good place tô top.

    • @Hiltok
      @Hiltok Місяць тому +1

      Well play, young man. Well played. 👏👏👏

  • @martincohen8991
    @martincohen8991 Місяць тому +1

    This is the usual good points - bad points proof, where the points are all eventually good.