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#1 2007-08-27 07:04:03
- JaneFairfax
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Ernst Lindelöf
Ernst Lindelöf was a Finnish mathematician. Lindelöf spaces in general topology are named after him. A Lindelöf space is a toplogical space for which every open cover has a countable subcover.
Recall that a compact space is a topological space for which every open cover has a finite subcover. Hence every compact space is a Lindelöf space.
Note: An open cover for a topological space X is a collection,
A subcover of for X is a subset of which is also an open cover of X.
#2 2008-11-24 10:39:37
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Re: Ernst Lindelöf
Though all compact spaces are Lindelöf, not all Lindelöf spaces are compact. For example, the rationals
are not compact, but they are certainly Lindelöf since they are countable. In fact, any countable non-compact space is a non-compact Lindelöf space.
#3 2008-11-24 11:04:25
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Re: Ernst Lindelöf
So can you name a space that isn't Lindelof?
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
#4 2008-11-25 12:30:45
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Re: Ernst Lindelöf
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