The American Mathematical Monthly | 2021

Countable Metric Spaces Without Isolated Points

 

Abstract


ABSTRACT This note provides a short, self-contained proof of the famous fact that any countable metric space without isolated points is homeomorphic to the space of rational numbers. The discussion is carried out entirely in the language of metric spaces.

Volume 128
Pages 265 - 267
DOI 10.1080/00029890.2021.1856586
Language English
Journal The American Mathematical Monthly

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