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- From: choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.)
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- Subject: Re: definition of topological space
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.002622.17213@access.usask.ca>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 00:26:22 GMT
- Article-I.D.: access.1992Nov7.002622.17213
- References: <1992Nov5.033835.5180@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1dbm2eINN7gr@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1dbm2eINN7gr@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>, edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov5.033835.5180@leland.Stanford.EDU> ledwards@leland.Stanford.EDU (Laurence James Edwards) writes:
- |> >The definition of a topological space is:
- |> >
- |> > :a set with a collection of subsets satisfying the conditions that
- |> > both the empty set and the set itself belong to the collection, the
- |> > union of any number of the subsets is also an element of the collection,
- |> > and the intersection of a finite number of the subsets is an element
- |> > of the collection
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- What elements of the power set are excluded from the collection?
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- |> The definition above should come only after many, many examples have been
- |> studied. At that point, the purpose of the definition may be more
- |> apparent.
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- Can you give some examples to help me appreciate the definition?
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- Henry Choy
- choy@cs.usask.ca
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