18.100B | Spring 2025 | Undergraduate, Graduate

Real Analysis

Lecture 13: Open and Closed Sets; Coverings; Compactness

We begin by giving a useful characterization of what it means for a set to be closed. This is the notion that a set contains all its limit points.  After that, we turn to the notion of a cover and, in particular, open covers and use it to define compact subsets of a metric space.

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