拓扑学中的序列与网

摘要：

在一个度量空间中，例如具有标准度量的实数，一个集合A是开的当且仅当在A之外的任何序列在A之内都没有极限。此外，度量空间是紧的当且仅当每个序列都有收敛的子序列。然而，在一般的拓扑空间中，这些等价可能失败。不幸的是，这一事实有时被忽视的入门课程一般拓扑，留下许多学生的误解，例如，紧凑性将永远等于序列紧凑性。本文的目的是展示序列如何可能无法正确地表征拓扑性质，如开放性，连续性和紧性。此外，我将定义网，并展示它们如何在序列失败的地方成功。

英文摘要：

In a metric space, such as the real numbers with their standard metric, a set A is open if and only if no sequence with terms outside of A has a limit inside A. Moreover, a metric space is compact if and only if every sequence has a converging subsequence. However, in a general topological space these equivalences may fail. Unfortunately this fact is sometimes overlooked in introductory courses on general topology, leaving many students with misconceptions, e.g. that compactness would always be equal to sequence compactness. The aim of this article is to show how sequences might fail to characterize topological properties such as openness, continuity and compactness correctly. Moreover, I will define nets and show how they succeed where sequences fail.

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