For proofs that are immediately true, either by definition or just from being obvious.
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Evident.
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Any closed set is compact, so any closure of a nbd is compact.
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Take one nbd from the local basis. Its closure is compact.
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Yeah.
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Indeed.
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A subcover is a refinement. A finite subcover is star-finite.
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If finitely many intersect a nbd around the point, finitely many will intersect the point.
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If true for any covers, then true for countable ones.
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If true for any covers, then true for countable ones.
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A subcover is a refinement. A finite subcover is star-finite.
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This is Paracompact Metacompact, just countable this time.
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By definition.
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If it has a dispersion point… it has… a point.
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Singletons are clopen.
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The space is not a singleton.
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This is obvious, so fun fact: The converse requires the continuum hypothesis.
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Big brain stuff.
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Singletons are compact.
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The path between two distinct points has at least points.
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The continuous map with and is not constant.
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Take a path between two points. It’s not constant.
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If continuous, and are connected.
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Shrink the cover twice.
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Clear from their definitions.
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Clear from their definitions.
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A single set is trivially a countable union.
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If each compact has a finite subcover, a countable union of them will have a countable subcover.
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Left as an exercise for the reader.
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Left as an exercise for the reader.
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That’s right, “countable” does not mean infinitely countable.
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Any topology is a subset of , so there are finitely many open sets.
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By definition, is the smallest cardinality greater than . Assuming the continuum hypothesis, .
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By definition, is the smallest uncountable cardinal.
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Every subspace is finite.
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Any open set has more than one point.
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is a finite neighborhood of .
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In particular, singletons are discrete.
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Compact sets are countably compact.
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Globally implies locally.
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This is just “Has a countable -network Has a -locally finite -network” (T352) with added.
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if and only if it has 0 or 1 point.
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There’s only one possible topology.
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There’s only one possible topology.
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If you have an infinite amount of apples, then you have at least 2 apples.
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Some point has a neighborhood not containing another point.
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A space is a subspace of itself.
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Singletons form a network.
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Every metric is a pseudometric.
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Globally implies locally.
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A countable basis is a local basis for every point.
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is with .
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Any two distinct points are distinguishable in a space.
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Important result to solve the Riemann hypothesis.
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It has finitely many self-maps (continuous or not).
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A space is a subspace of itself.
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If itself is not dense, then some point is isolated.
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where is countable and each is nowhere dense.
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Globally implies locally.
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Every metric is a pseudometric.
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By definition.
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By definition.
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By definition.
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By definition.
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By definition.
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By definition.
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Groups/monoids are nonempty by definition.
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is true for any cardinal.
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A topology is a coarser topology of itself.
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We’re just dropping the “separable”.
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If you have at least 3 apples, then you have at least 2 apples.
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If you have at least 4 apples, then you have at least 3 apples.
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If you have an infinite amount of apples, then you have at least 4 apples.
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If it has a fixed point… it has… a point.
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In general, a countable topology is second countable.
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Can’t argue with that.
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Can’t argue with that.
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Can’t argue with that.
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Literally by definition.
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Literally by definition.
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Literally by definition.
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Literally by definition.
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It’s an order topology.
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In order for to be connected, it needs to have at least 2 points.
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Finite implies countable.
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It’s almost… so not quite.
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The homotopy cannot be empty.
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If it has a closed point… it has… a point.
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A space is a subspace of itself.
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Any set in any local basis is compact.
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Every is homeomorphic to .
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The complement of any set must be finite.