### Author Topic: Topological Space  (Read 1922 times)

#### Alberto Dominguez

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##### Topological Space
« on: December 18, 2011, 07:42:40 PM »
A topological space is a set X together with $\tau$ (a collection of subsets of X) satisfying the following axioms:
The empty set and X are in $\tau$.
$\tau$ is closed under arbitrary union.
$\tau$ is closed under finite intersection.
The collection $\tau$ is called a topology on X. The elements of X are usually called points, though they can be any mathematical objects. A topological space in which the points are functions is called a function space. The sets in $\tau$ are called the open sets, and their complements in X are called closed sets.

Four examples and two non-examples of topologies on the three-point set {1,2,3}. The bottom-left example is not a topology because the union of {2} and {3} [i.e. {2,3}] is missing; the bottom-right example is not a topology because the intersection of {1,2} and {2,3} [i.e. {2}], is missing.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_space
« Last Edit: December 18, 2011, 07:52:30 PM by Alberto Dominguez »
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Alberto Domínguez