are polynomials dense in C(R)?

Is the following statement right?
for every continuous function like f,there exist a sequence of polynomials like P_n which P_n -> f

Re: are polynomials dense in C(R)?

I should have mentioned this earlier (my apologies). What you're talking about is more or less the Weierstrass Approximation Theorem, which holds for C(X), where X is a compact subset of Euclidean n-space (R^n):

http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/WeierstrassApproximationTheorem.html

This result is a special case of the Stone-Weierstrass Theorem (of which there is a real and complex version), which gives general conditions under which a sub-algebra of the continuous functions on a compact topological space is uniformly dense in the space of all continuous functions thereon:

http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/StoneWeierstrassTheorem.html

Re: are polynomials dense in C(R)?

And is what he asked true if we consider pointwise convergence?

Re: are polynomials dense in C(R)?

This was discussed a few years back in the sci.math newsgroup. They have shown it to be true.. If I have time I will try to find the reference for it and post it here.

Re: are polynomials dense in C(R)?

>>Prove that A is dense in C^0([a; 1];R) for all a > 0. ...

Re: are polynomials dense in C(R)?

If you mean "uniformly dense," then I don't think this is true for C(R). If you replace R with a closed, bounded interval [a,b], then yes, the polynomials are uniformly dense in C([a,b]).

Re: are polynomials dense in C(R)?

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