Compact Subspace of Real Numbers is Closed and Bounded/Proof 1
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Theorem
Let $\R$ be the real number line considered as a Euclidean space.
Let $S \subseteq \R$ be compact subspace of $\R$.
Then $S$ is closed and bounded in $\R$.
Proof
From:
the result follows by the Rule of Transposition.
$\blacksquare$
Sources
- 1967: George McCarty: Topology: An Introduction with Application to Topological Groups ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text{III}$: Metric Spaces: Compactness