Lethargy theorem

Let ${\displaystyle V_{1}\subset V_{2}\subset \ldots }$ be a strictly ascending sequence of finite-dimensional linear subspaces of a Banach space X, and let ${\displaystyle \epsilon _{1}\geq \epsilon _{2}\geq \ldots }$ be a decreasing sequence of real numbers tending to zero. Then there exists a point x in X such that the distance of x to V_i is exactly ${\displaystyle \epsilon _{i}}$.

• Bernstein's theorem (approximation theory)

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