The first part of the question asks you to show
that for natural numbers
and
if
then
Here's a hint for this: try starting with
,
which you are given, and adding
to both
sides of the inequality.
For the next part of the question you are given
a product
and the hint to consider
and
clearly the first part of the question should
come in useful. Look out for a 'magic
concertina' effect!!
If you can prove the second inequality then you
will have shown that
gets bigger and bigger
without limit as you put more terms into the
product which proves that the product diverges,
hence the title of the question!
For the last bit of the question, taking
and repeating the last trick leads to the
disappointing conclusion that
, this
estimate is not good enough.
Go back to the drawing board and do some neat estimating of
calculating the product of the first few
terms exactly and using the concertina method on
the rest. This will quickly give you the result.
This is a good illustration of what
mathematicians do all the time with
inequalities. They go on sharpening them to get
better and better estimates until they get close
enough for their purposes.