Investigating whether a function is bounded on a specific interval

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I have the following function:

$y=f(x)=\frac{1}{1-x^{2}}$ for $x \in M=(-1,1)$

How would I find the bounds? I tried setting various numbers from the interval as $X$ and I was able to see that there is not upper bound, as the function can rise to positive infinity (1/0,00001..), however my assumption was that the lower bound is 1, which is incorrect.

Can you tell me how to find the upper and lower bounds in general (without guessing)? Thanks

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Computing the derivative yields $$ f'(x) = \frac{2x}{1-x^2} $$ which has a unique solution at $x=0$ where $f(0) = 1$. See that $f(x) > 1$ for all $x \in M \setminus \{0\}$. Thus you have that $1$ is a lower bound. To see that it is not bounded from above compute the limit $$ \lim_{x \to 1^-}f(x)=\infty $$ and conclude from this that there is no $c\in\mathbb{R}$ such that $f(x) \le c$ for all $x \in M$.