Thursday, 10 April 2014

general topology - Prob. 13, Chap. 2 in Baby Rudin: Construct a compact set of real numbers whose limit points form a countable set

Here's Prob. 13 in the Exercises after Chap. 2 in the book Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin, 3rd edition.




Construct a compact set of real numbers whose limit points form a countable set.




Here's Def. 2.4(c) in Rudin.





For any positive integer n, let Jn be the set whose elements are the integers 1,2,,n; let J be the set consisting of all positive integers. For any set A, we say A is countable if AJ (i.e. there is a 1-! correspondence between A and J).




I know that this question has been asked many times here before. However, I would like to demonstrate my effort, which goes as follows.



For each positive integer n, let the set An be defined as follows.
An:={ 1n1k : kN, k>n(n+1) }.
Thus, we have

A1={ 23,34,45,56, },
A2={ 514,38,718,25,922,512,1126,37,1330,716, },
and so on



Now let A0:={ 1n : nN }{0}.



Finally let
A:=n=0An.



Is this set A good enough?

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