18.S190 | January IAP 2023 | Undergraduate

Introduction to Metric Spaces

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This course provides a basic introduction to metric spaces. It covers metrics, open and closed sets, continuous functions (in the topological sense), function spaces, completeness, and compactness.

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Six rectangles, which are subsets of each other.
Hierarchy of topological spaces. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
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