From 3e90714cf88356f432ee8ea0699a96eab315928d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ceciliachan1979 <75919064+ceciliachan1979@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 17:30:42 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] BabyRudin: Solution: Ex15 in Ch02 --- Books/BabyRudin/Chapter02/ex15.tex | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Books/BabyRudin/Chapter02/ex15.tex diff --git a/Books/BabyRudin/Chapter02/ex15.tex b/Books/BabyRudin/Chapter02/ex15.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc26b13 --- /dev/null +++ b/Books/BabyRudin/Chapter02/ex15.tex @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +\subsection*{Exercise 15} +To show that the theorem is not true for closed subsets, consider the family of set $ \overline{\{n\}} $ for $ n \in \mathbb{N} $ as subsets of the real number line. + +All the sets are closed because these isolated points have no additional limit points. (i.e any points that is not a natural number will have a neighborhood that does not intersect with the set.) +Any finite intersection is not empty there is a maximum number that is being deleted by the sets, and the number after it is not deleted by any set and therefore belong to the intersection. +But the infinite intersection is empty because there is no maximum number that is not deleted by any set. + +To show that the theorem is not true for bounded subsets, consider the family of set $ [1, 2] $ with $ r $ deleted for all real numbers $ r $. + +All the sets are bounded because they are all subsets of $ [1, 2] $. +Any finite intersection is not empty because there are infinitely many real numbers in $ [1, 2] $ but we only deleted a finite number of them, so there must be a number that is not deleted. +But the infinite intersection is empty because we deleted all the real numbers in $ [1, 2] $. +