# A sequence whose closure is the unit circle

Looks like I’ll be visiting U. Michigan for a week or so at the end of October. What does one do on such a visit? I’ve been invited to give a talk, but that doesn’t occupy more than an afternoon…

I spent this morning reading through some of the literature on subspace tracking, then wound up visiting Nocedal and Wright for a refresher on the augmented Lagrangian method (Chap 17). Flipping through the book, I came across the following question:

Show that every point on the unit circle is a limit point of the sequence
$\vec{x}_k = \left(1 + \frac{1}{2^k}\right) \begin{pmatrix} \cos k \\ \sin k \end{pmatrix}.$

Not challenging (esp. if you don’t go into the nasty $$\varepsilon-\delta$$ details ), but it’s a cute problem.

• I have a friend started their PhD at U of Michigan, Ann Arbor this Fall.

If you want, then I can connect you to each other.

• Oh, since you gave away the approach to the solution, the fun is gone.

No matter, I have plenty of problems from class and prepping myself for Masters Test of the HMMT.

• swiftset

Sure: send me their email address, or send them mine. How did I give away the solution?! Unless you looked in the book. The hint there practically solves the problem for you.

• “The hint there practically solves the problem for you.”

Exactly.

• swiftset

HMMT?