How does one show that $\lim\_{x\rightarrow\infty}\left(1+\frac{1}{x}\right)^x$ converges? I have a book that uses this to define $e$ but they don't show that it converges. I suppose we could give it an upper and lower bound but I don't know how to do this. I've seen this question before on here but I haven't seen an answer I like yet.