I am currently going through the "Principles of Mathematical Analysis" by Walter Ruding and just below theorem 7.12 he mentions that an interesting property can be proved about one of the examples. He does not explain how and I was not able to find any solution on the internet. Maybe the proof is trivial to anybody but me, but I'll share it here anyway.

First off, what are we talking about anyway? The example is in the context of sequences of functions. He says that there are sequences of continuous functions that converge to a continuous function, but do not converge uniformly to that function. He gives a sequence from an earlier example:

fn(x)=n2x(1x2)n(for 0x1,nN+).

It's easy to show (and Rudin does it), that for every x in the domain:

f(x)=limnfn(x)=0.

Therefore f is continuous. fn is continuous for every n since it is defined as a combination of elementary functions.

As Rudin suggests we might want to apply theorem 7.9, which I'll state for easy reference:

Define Mn=sup|fn(x)f(x)| then {fn} converges uniformly to f iff Mn converges to 0.

So, how do we apply that to our example?

By integration we get 01fn(x)dx=n22n+2.

Since for all x we have f(x)=0, we get Mn=supfn(x).

By theorem 6.12 we can put a lower bound on the supremum using the integral:

01fn(x)Mn(10).

By substitution we get

Mnn22n+2.

We can conclude using the comparison test that Mn diverges and therefore {fn} does not converge uniformly by theorem 7.9.