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Lecture 6
Last time, we ended at discussion of two equivalent definitions of subsequential limit. I hope the Cantor's diagonalization trick was fun. Today, we prove the following results
If $s_n$ converge to $s$, then every subsequence of $s_n$ converges to $s$.
Every sequence has a monotone subsequence.
If there are infinitely many $s_n$, that is 'larger than its tails' ($s_n \geq s_k$ for all $k \geq n$), then we can take the subsequences of such $s_n$, it is monotone decreasing.
Otherwise, you throw away an initial chunk that contains such $s_n$, then you can always build an increasing sequence (nothing can stop you)
Every bounded sequence has convergent subsequence. (just take a monotone sequence, then it will be convergent)
$\limsup$ and $\liminf$ can be realized as subseq limits.
Let $(s_n)$ be a seq, and $S$ denote the set of all subseq limits. Then, $S$ is non-empty. $\sup S = \limsup s_n$ and $\inf S = \liminf s_n$.