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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: definition of topological space
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.015406.6145@galois.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov5.033835.5180@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov5.211426.3699@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 01:54:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.211426.3699@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- >A function f from one topological space X to another Y is defined to be
- >continuous if given any open set O in Y, f^{-1}O is open in X. Here
- >f^{-1}O means the set of all points in X which are sent by f to
- points... in O!
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- (correcting a typo)
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