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 A∼J (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:={ 1n−1k : k∈N, 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 : n∈N }∪{0}.
Finally let
A:=∪∞n=0An.
Is this set A good enough?
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