10-327/Homework Assignment 5

DBN: Classes: 2010-11: 10-327/Navigation Additions to the MAT 327 web site no longer count towards good deed points # Week of... Notes and Links 1 Sep 13 About This Class, Monday - Continuity and open sets, Thursday - topologies, continuity, bases. 2 Sep 20 Monday - More on bases, Thursdsay - Products, Subspaces, Closed sets, HW1, HW1 Solutions 3 Sep 27 Monday - the Cantor set, closures, Thursday, Class Photo, HW2, HW2 Solutions 4 Oct 4 Monday - the axiom of choice and infinite product spaces, Thursday - the box and the product topologies, metric spaces, HW3, HW3 Solutions 5 Oct 11 Monday is Thanksgiving. Thursday - metric spaces, sequencial closures, various products. Final exam's date announced on Friday. 6 Oct 18 Monday - connectedness in ${\mathbb {R} }$, HW4, HW4 Solutions, Thursday - connectedness, path-connectedness and products 7 Oct 25 Monday - Compactness of $[0,1]$, Term Test on Thursday, TT Solutions 8 Nov 1 Monday - compact is closed and bounded, maximal values, HW5, HW5 Solutions, Wednesday was the last date to drop this course, Thursday - compactness of products and in metric spaces, the FIP 9 Nov 8 Monday-Tuesday is Fall Break, Thursday - Tychonoff and a taste of Stone-Cech, HW6, HW6 Solutions 10 Nov 15 Monday - generalized limits, Thursday - Normal spaces and Urysohn's lemma, HW7, HW7 Solutions 11 Nov 22 Monday - $T_{3.5}$ and $I^{A}$, Thursday - Tietze's theorem 12 Nov 29 Monday - compactness in metric spaces, HW8, HW8 Solutions, Thursday - completeness and compactness 13 Dec 6 Monday - Baire spaces and no-where differentiable functions, Wednesday - Hilbert's 13th problem; also see December 2010 Schedule R Dec 13 See December 2010 Schedule F Dec 20 Final exam, Monday December 20, 2PM-5PM, at BR200 Register of Good Deeds Add your name / see who's in! See Hilbert's 13th

Reading

Read sections 26 and 27 in Munkres' textbook (Topology, 2nd edition). Remember that reading math isn't like reading a novel! If you read a novel and miss a few details most likely you'll still understand the novel. But if you miss a few details in a math text, often you'll miss everything that follows. So reading math takes reading and rereading and rerereading and a lot of thought about what you've read. Also, preread sections 28 and 29, just to get a feel for the future.

Doing

Solve the following problems from Munkres' book, though submit only the underlined ones: Problems 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 on pages 170-172, and problem 2 on page 177. (For the last, recall that $d(x,A):={\mbox{inf}}_{a\in A}d(x,a)$).

Due date

This assignment is due at the end of class on Thursday, November 11, 2010.

Dror's notes above / Student's notes below

• Question. In 4. By bounded metric space you mean there exists a point and an epsilon where this epsilon nbd contains everything in the metric space? -Kai
  • Indeed so, though usually when talking about boundedness, people use the letter $M$ and not the letter $\epsilon$. It makes no difference, of course.

Solution

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An assignment without a solution is like a nightmare to me. I like every question accompanied with a clean solution beside.(Might not be the case for research question because they are just simply too hard.) I would like to share this happiness of understanding and acquiring knowledge with everybody because I don't think this class is a battle. I certainly don't like the idea that we should keep information/answers as something like business secrets. This learning process should be enjoyable which should be full of discussions instead of things like "you have to think on your own/ I can't tell you the answer". I know maybe other people might not agree with me but I believe a positive learning environment is crucial to truly understanding something well although we should not neglect independent thinking at the same time. That is why I share whatever I have with you. If I am wrong feel free to criticize me, and I am pretty sure a lot of people don't agree with me. But that is OK because there is just no absolute right or wrong and everybody is doing what they think is right. Just like you can't say if Axiom of choice is right or not. If you believe then it is right. If you don't believe it then it is wrong. Or maybe, for the entire subject--math, if you believe it then it is right. If you don't believe it then it is completely wrong.-Kai