Editing Bounded function (section)

==Examples==
* The [[sine]] function <math>\sin: \mathbb R \rightarrow \mathbb R</math> is bounded since <math>|\sin (x)| \le 1</math> for all <math>x \in \mathbb{R}</math>.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Sine and Cosine Functions|url=https://math.dartmouth.edu/opencalc2/cole/lecture10.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202195902/https://math.dartmouth.edu/opencalc2/cole/lecture10.pdf|archive-date=2 February 2013|access-date=1 September 2021|website=math.dartmouth.edu}}</ref>
* The function <math>f(x)=(x^2-1)^{-1}</math>, defined for all real <math>x</math> except for −1 and 1, is unbounded. As ''<math>x</math>'' approaches −1 or 1, the values of this function get larger in magnitude. This function can be made bounded if one restricts its domain to be, for example, <math>[2, \infty)</math> or <math>(-\infty, -2]</math>.{{Citation needed|date= September 2021}}
* The function <math display="inline">f(x)= (x^2+1)^{-1}</math>, defined for all real ''<math>x</math>'', ''is'' bounded, since <math display="inline">|f(x)| \le 1</math> for all ''<math>x</math>''.{{Citation needed|date= September 2021}}
* The [[inverse trigonometric function]] arctangent defined as: <math>y= \arctan (x)</math> or <math>x = \tan (y)</math> is [[monotonic function|increasing]] for all real numbers ''<math>x</math>'' and bounded with <math>-\frac{\pi}{2} < y < \frac{\pi}{2}</math> [[Radian|radians]]<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Polyanin|first1=Andrei D.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ejzScufwDRUC&dq=arctangent+bounded&pg=PA27|title=A Concise Handbook of Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering Sciences|last2=Chernoutsan|first2=Alexei|date=2010-10-18|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-4398-0640-1|language=en}}</ref>
* By the [[boundedness theorem]], every [[continuous function]] on a closed interval, such as <math>f: [0, 1] \rightarrow \mathbb R</math>, is bounded.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Weisstein|first=Eric W.|title=Extreme Value Theorem|url=https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ExtremeValueTheorem.html|access-date=2021-09-01|website=mathworld.wolfram.com|language=en}}</ref> More generally, any continuous function from a [[compact space]] into a metric space is bounded.{{Citation needed|date= September 2021}}
*All complex-valued functions <math>f: \mathbb C \rightarrow \mathbb C</math> which are [[Entire function|entire]] are either unbounded or constant as a consequence of [[Liouville's theorem (complex analysis)|Liouville's theorem]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Liouville theorems - Encyclopedia of Mathematics|url=https://encyclopediaofmath.org/wiki/Liouville_theorems|access-date=2021-09-01|website=encyclopediaofmath.org}}</ref> In particular, the complex <math>\sin: \mathbb C \rightarrow \mathbb C</math> must be unbounded since it is entire.{{Citation needed|date= September 2021}}
* The function <math>f</math> which takes the value 0 for <math>x</math> [[rational number]] and 1 for ''<math>x</math>'' [[irrational number]] (cf. [[Nowhere continuous function#Dirichlet function|Dirichlet function]]) ''is'' bounded. Thus, a function [[Pathological (mathematics)|does not need to be "nice"]] in order to be bounded. The set of all bounded functions defined on <math>[0, 1]</math> is much larger than the set of [[continuous function]]s on that interval.{{Citation needed|date= September 2021}} Moreover, continuous functions need not be bounded; for example, the functions <math>g:\mathbb{R}^2\to\mathbb{R}</math> and <math>h: (0, 1)^2\to\mathbb{R}</math> defined by <math>g(x, y) := x + y</math> and <math>h(x, y) := \frac{1}{x+y}</math> are both continuous, but neither is bounded.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last1=Ghorpade|first1=Sudhir R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JVFJAAAAQBAJ&q=%22Bounded+function%22|title=A Course in Multivariable Calculus and Analysis|last2=Limaye|first2=Balmohan V.|date=2010-03-20|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4419-1621-1|pages=56|language=en}}</ref> (However, a continuous function must be bounded if its domain is both closed and bounded.<ref name=":1" />)