π-base: Difficulty 1
Difficulty: 1
For proofs that are immediately true, either by definition or just from being obvious.
1 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Evident. 6 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Any closed set is compact, so any closure of a nbd is compact. 7 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Take one nbd from the local basis. Its closure is compact. 8 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 9 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Indeed. 13 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A subcover is a refinement. A finite subcover is star-finite. 14 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If finitely many intersect a nbd around the point, finitely many will intersect the point. 15 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If true for any covers, then true for countable ones. 16 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If true for any covers, then true for countable ones. 17 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A subcover is a refinement. A finite subcover is star-finite. 18 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: This is Paracompact Metacompact, just countable this time. 25 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 31 Added: Mar 18, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 36 Added: Mar 14, 2026 Difficulty: A space is a subspace of itself. 39 Added: Mar 15, 2026 Difficulty: An injective path is a path. 41 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If it has a dispersion point… it has… a point. 42 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Singletons are clopen. 52 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: The space is not a singleton. 55 Added: Mar 20, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 61 Added: Mar 20, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 63 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: An injective path is a path. 67 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: This is obvious, so fun fact: The converse requires the continuum hypothesis. 68 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Big brain stuff. 74 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Singletons are compact. 75 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: The path between two distinct points has at least points. 77 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: A complete metric is… a metric. 78 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 80 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: The continuous map with and is not constant. 84 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 88 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Take a path between two points. It’s not constant. 90 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: A countable family is a countable union of singletons, and a singleton is trivially locally finite. 94 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If continuous, and are connected. 98 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: is (hence, ) by definition. 100 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: is (hence, ) by definition. 101 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: In particular, is and normal, which implies (shown in T99), and so it must be by definition. 104 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 105 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 106 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Shrink the cover twice. 108 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: If only singletons are connected and has a basis of connected sets, then the basis must be all singletons. 112 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: I’m not sure why this is here. implies (T100) and completely normal (T336). Completely normal implies normal (T36). and normal implies (T99). 116 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 117 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 118 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Clear from their definitions. 119 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Clear from their definitions. 121 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A single set is trivially a countable union. 122 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If each compact has a finite subcover, a countable union of them will have a countable subcover. 123 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: Take any open cover. Apply Lindelöf, then apply countably paracompact. 124 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: Take any open cover. Apply Lindelöf, then apply countably metacompact. 126 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 128 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: A subcover is trivially, a subcolection with dense union. 138 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Left as an exercise for the reader. 139 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Left as an exercise for the reader. 144 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Every set is clopen. 146 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 147 Added: Mar 23, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 149 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 150 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 152 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 153 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 154 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: is and perfectly normal. Then it is completely normal (T156). and completely normal is (T101). 157 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: Normal and is the definition of . 163 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: Any compact set is relatively compact. 176 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 181 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Globally implies locally. 182 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 187 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: That’s right, “countable” does not mean infinitely countable. 189 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Any topology is a subset of , so there are finitely many open sets. 190 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition, is the smallest cardinality greater than . Assuming the continuum hypothesis, . 191 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition, is the smallest uncountable cardinal. 193 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Globally implies locally. 197 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 198 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Every subspace is finite. 199 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 200 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 201 Added: Mar 26, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 206 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Fréchet Urysohn is stronger because it asserts there is a sequence, a.k.a a transfinite sequence of length . 207 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Any radially closed set must be, in particular, sequentially closed. 208 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Any open set has more than one point. 212 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: If each local basis is countable and is countable, then is a countable basis. 218 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: is a finite neighborhood of . 234 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Compact sets are countably compact. 237 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: By definition: -compact countable union of compacts . Hemicompact countable union of compacts such that any compact set lies inside some . 238 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Globally implies locally. 241 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: This is just “Has a countable -network Has a countable network” (T11) with added. 242 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: This is just “Has a countable network Has a -locally finite network” (T29) with added. 243 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: This is just “Has a countable -network Has a -locally finite -network” (T352) with added. 244 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: This is just “Has a -locally finite -network Has a -locally finite network” (T34) with added. 245 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: Just take one element from the local basis. 247 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: if and only if it has 0 or 1 point. 248 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: There’s only one possible topology. 249 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: There’s only one possible topology. 250 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If you have an infinite amount of apples, then you have at least 2 apples. 251 Added: Mar 28, 2026 Difficulty: Any open cover must contain as an element. 253 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Some point has a neighborhood not containing another point. 254 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A space is a subspace of itself. 259 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Singletons form a network. 264 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Every metric is a pseudometric. 265 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By contraposition, if , then they both have the same neighborhoods. 266 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Globally implies locally. 270 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A countable basis is a local basis for every point. 281 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: is with . 283 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Any two distinct points are distinguishable in a space. 286 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: Immediate by definition. 287 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: By definition, is and . 288 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: ensures any two points are distinguishable. This is an if and only if. 295 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Important result to solve the Riemann hypothesis. 296 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: Indiscrete spaces are connected and being indiscrete is hereditary. 299 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: It has finitely many self-maps (continuous or not). 303 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A space is a subspace of itself. 304 Added: Mar 30, 2026 Difficulty: The space is a countable union of finite sets. 306 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If itself is not dense, then some point is isolated. 313 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: The only family of disjoint nonempty open sets is empty, which is countable. 315 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: where is countable and each is nowhere dense. 320 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: The space cannot be a partition of more than one nonempty closed set. 323 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: If is closed for every compact , in particular is closed for each stipulated by the -space property, proving is closed. 326 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Globally implies locally. 327 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Every metric is a pseudometric. 331 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: This is just “(Pseudometrizable ∧ ) Metrizable” (T265) but for local nbds. 333 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 335 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 336 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 337 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 338 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 339 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 340 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 342 Added: Apr 2, 2026 Difficulty: If an open refinement is a partition, its elements are pairwise-disjoint, so trivially star-finite. 346 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Groups/monoids are nonempty by definition. 350 Added: Apr 3, 2026 Difficulty: Any intersection of open sets is open, including countable ones. 390 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: is true for any cardinal. 391 Added: Apr 3, 2026 Difficulty: means or . 407 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A topology is a coarser topology of itself. 409 Added: Apr 3, 2026 Difficulty: The space has a coarser metrizable topology, and any coarser topology of a separable space is separable as well (a dense set remains dense in coarser topologies). 410 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: We’re just dropping the “separable”. 419 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: A regular open neighborhood is… an open neighborhood. 428 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If you have at least 3 apples, then you have at least 2 apples. 430 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If you have at least 4 apples, then you have at least 3 apples. 431 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If you have an infinite amount of apples, then you have at least 4 apples. 433 Added: Apr 4, 2026 Difficulty: Vacuously true: there are no disjoint subsets with at least two points each. 440 Added: Mar 21, 2025 Difficulty: A space is a subspace of itself. 446 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If it has a fixed point… it has… a point. 448 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: The partition would be itself, the trivial partition. 450 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: In general, a countable topology is second countable. 452 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 454 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Can’t argue with that. 455 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Can’t argue with that. 456 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Can’t argue with that. 457 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 469 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: As the partition forms a basis for , it must refine any open cover, and each element of the partition is a clopen set. 471 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: A space is a subspace of itself (and is homeomorphic to itself). 479 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: Being a W-space is hereditary. 480 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 481 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 482 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 483 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 484 Added: Apr 5, 2026 Difficulty: By one of the equivalent definitions. 489 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: It’s an order topology. 499 Added: Mar 29, 2026 Difficulty: We can cover the space with countable sets, and take a countable subcover. 511 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: By definition (quasi-sober just drops uniqueness). 558 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: In order for to be disconnected, it needs to have at least 2 points. 559 Added: Mar 16, 2026 Difficulty: The space is a closed subspace of itself. 564 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Finite implies countable. 571 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: It’s almost… so not quite. 584 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: The homotopy cannot be empty. 603 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty: Separable means Density. 604 Added: Mar 25, 2026 Difficulty:
621 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: If it has a closed point… it has… a point. 650 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: A space is a subspace of itself. 652 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Any set in any local basis is compact. 703 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: An arc is, by definition, an embedding (hence, injective). 704 Added: Mar 21, 2026 Difficulty: An arc is, by definition, an embedding (hence, injective). 757 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: Every is homeomorphic to . 782 Added: Mar 12, 2026 Difficulty: The complement of any set must be finite. 803 Added: Mar 24, 2026 Difficulty: By definition. 825 Added: Mar 13, 2026 Difficulty: It’s impossible to have an infinite strictly decreasing sequence of open sets if there are only finitely many possible open sets. 858 Added: Mar 16, 2026 Difficulty: Globally implies locally.Compact Countably compact
Compact Locally relatively compact
Locally relatively compact Weakly locally compact
Exhaustible by compacts Weakly locally compact
Compact Exhaustible by compacts
Compact Strongly paracompact
Paracompact Metacompact
Paracompact Countably paracompact
Submetacompact Countably metacompact
Countably compact Countably paracompact
Countably paracompact Countably metacompact
Topological -manifold Locally -Euclidean
(Locally -Euclidean ∧ ∧ Second countable) Topological -manifold
Completely normal Normal
Injectively path connected Path connected
Has a dispersion point ¬ Empty
Discrete
(Totally disconnected ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Connected
Cosmic Has a countable network
(Has a countable network ∧ ) Cosmic
Locally injectively path connected Locally path connected
Countable Cardinality
Cardinality Cardinality
Countable -compact
(Injectively path connected ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Cardinality
Completely metrizable Metrizable
Biconnected Connected
(Functionally Hausdorff ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Strongly connected
-space
(Path connected ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Totally path disconnected
Second countable Has a -locally finite base
(Injectively path connected ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Biconnected
( ∧ Completely normal)
Fully
( ∧ Fully normal) Fully
(Lindelöf ∧ Countably compact) Compact
(Totally disconnected ∧ Locally connected) Discrete
-space Has a countable -network
(Has a countable -network ∧ ) -space
Compact -compact
-compact Lindelöf
(Lindelöf ∧ Countably paracompact) Paracompact
(Lindelöf ∧ Countably metacompact) Metacompact
(Compact ∧ ∧ Extremally disconnected) Stonean
Lindelöf Weakly Lindelöf
Cardinality ¬ Cardinality
Cardinality Cardinality
Discrete Door
Regular
-space Has a -locally finite network
Completely regular
(Has a -locally finite network ∧ ) -space
( ∧ Perfectly normal)
Dowker
-compact -relatively-compact
Spectral Sober
Metrizable Locally metrizable
-space Has a -locally finite -network
Finite Countable
Finite Second countable
Cardinality Cardinality
Cardinality ¬ Countable
Locally Hausdorff
(Has a -locally finite -network ∧ ) -space
Finite Noetherian
Polish Separable
Polish Completely metrizable
(Separable ∧ Completely metrizable) Polish
Fréchet Urysohn Radial
Sequential Pseudoradial
(Indiscrete ∧ Has multiple points) ¬ Has an isolated point
(Countable ∧ First countable) Second countable
Discrete Locally finite
Strongly KC KC
Hemicompact -compact
Countable Locally countable
-space Cosmic
Cosmic -space
-space -space
-space -space
Locally compact Weakly locally compact
(Discrete ∧ Indiscrete) ¬ Has multiple points
¬ Has multiple points Discrete
¬ Has multiple points Indiscrete
¬ Finite Has multiple points
Indiscrete Compact
(Has multiple points ∧ ) ¬ Indiscrete
Hereditarily Lindelöf Lindelöf
Countable Has a countable network
Metrizable Pseudometrizable
(Pseudometrizable ∧ ) Metrizable
Finite Locally finite
Second countable First countable
( ∧ )
( ∧ )
Has multiple points ¬ Empty
Indiscrete Hereditarily connected
Finite Countably-many continuous self-maps
(Anticompact ∧ Compact) Finite
(Anticompact ∧ -compact) Countable
(Scattered ∧ ¬ Empty) Has an isolated point
Hyperconnected Countable chain condition
Empty Meager
Ultraconnected -connected
-space -space
Pseudometrizable Locally pseudometrizable
Locally metrizable Locally pseudometrizable
(Locally pseudometrizable ∧ ) Locally metrizable
Topological -manifold
Normal
Completely normal
Fully Fully normal
Perfectly normal
Spectral Compact
Topological -manifold Second countable
Ultraparacompact Strongly paracompact
Has a group topology ¬ Empty
Alexandrov P-space
Cardinality Cardinality
(¬ Cardinality ∧ ¬ Cardinality ) ¬ Cardinality
Metrizable Submetrizable
(Separable ∧ Submetrizable) Has a coarser separable metrizable topology
Has a coarser separable metrizable topology Submetrizable
Semi-Hausdorff
Cardinality Has multiple points
Cardinality Cardinality
¬ Finite Cardinality
(Connected ∧ ¬ Cardinality ) Biconnected
Hereditarily separable Separable
Fixed point property ¬ Empty
Indiscrete Partition topology
Indiscrete Second countable
Has a cut point Connected
Countably infinite Countable
Countably infinite ¬ Finite
(Countable ∧ ¬ Finite) Countably infinite
Corson compact Compact
Partition topology Ultraparacompact
(Has a group topology ∧ W-space) Embeds in a topological -group
Embeds in a topological -group W-space
(Compact ∧ Connected ∧ ) Continuum
Continuum
Continuum Compact
Continuum Connected
-connected Connected
Ordinal space LOTS
(Locally countable ∧ Lindelöf) Countable
Sober Quasi-sober
Has a cut point Cardinality
(Has countable extent ∧ Discrete) Countable
Locally finite Locally countable
Almost discrete ¬ Discrete
Contractible ¬ Empty
Separable Density
Cardinality Density
Has a closed point ¬ Empty
Noetherian Compact
Noetherian Locally compact
Arc connected Injectively path connected
Locally arc connected Locally injectively path connected
Empty Locally -Euclidean
(Discrete ∧ Finite) Has a cofinite topology
Stonean Extremally disconnected
Finite Artinian
Simply connected Weakly locally simply connected