Editing Uniform continuity (section)

== History ==
The first published definition of uniform continuity was by [[Eduard_Heine|Heine]] in 1870, and in 1872 he published a proof that a continuous function on an open interval need not be uniformly continuous. The proofs are almost verbatim given by [[Peter_Gustav_Lejeune_Dirichlet|Dirichlet]] in his lectures on definite integrals in 1854. The definition of uniform continuity appears earlier in the work of Bolzano where he also proved that continuous functions on an open interval do not need to be uniformly continuous.  In addition he also states that a continuous function on a closed interval is uniformly continuous, but he does not give a complete proof.{{sfn|Rusnock|Kerr-Lawson|2005}}