Show that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\sin (nx)}{n}$ converges uniformly on $[\pi /2 , 3\pi /2]$

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I must show that $\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{\sin (nx)}{n}$ converges uniformly on $[\pi /2 , 3\pi /2]$ - I know that it holds on $[\pi /2 , \pi ]$, which should also be sufficient as a proof, but I don't know how to prove it.

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We want to be able to use Dirichlet uniform convergence test

So we need that
i)
1/n is monotonous decreasing function

ii)
1/n uniformly converges to 0 (which it does since it doesn't depend on variable x)

iii)

$$ (\exists M>0)(\forall n\in \mathbb{N})(\forall x\in [\pi/2,3\pi/2]) $$

$$ \left | \sum_{m=1}^{n} \sin(mx) \right | \le M $$

We can prove that by

$$ \left | \frac{1}{\sin{\frac{x}{2}}}\sum_{m=1}^{n} \sin{mx}\sin{\frac{x}{2}} \right | = \left | \frac{1}{2\sin{\frac{x}{2}}}\sum_{m=1}^{n} (\cos{\frac{(2m-1)x}{2}}-\cos{\frac{(2m+1)x}{2}}) \right | = $$

$$ \left | \frac{\cos{\frac{x}{2}}-\cos{\frac{(2n+1)x}{2}}}{2\sin{\frac{x}{2}}} \right | \le \left | \frac{1}{\sin{\frac{x}{2}}} \right | $$

So when $x\in [\pi/2,3\pi/2])$ we know $\frac{x}{2} \in [\pi/4,3\pi/4]$

$$ \max_{x \in [\pi/4,3\pi/4]} \left | \frac{1}{\sin{\frac{x}{2}}} \right | = \frac{2}{\sqrt{2}} $$

Hence using Dirichlet uniform convergence test we conclude that beginning function series uniformly converges on $[\pi/2,3\pi/2]$