# A Historical Gem from Vito Volterra

by William Dunham (Hanover College and Ohio State University)

Mathematics Magazine
October, 1990

Subject classification(s): Analysis | Real Analysis | Continuity

A recounting of an elementary proof by Volterra of a theorem that implies there cannot exist a function continuous at each irrational point in $(0,1)$ and discontinuous at each rational point.

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