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Metric and Topological Spaces
Part IB, 2015

Let XX and YY be topological spaces and f:XYf: X \rightarrow Y a continuous map. Suppose HH is a subset of XX such that f(Hˉ)f(\bar{H}) is closed (where Hˉ\bar{H} denotes the closure of HH ). Prove that f(Hˉ)=f(H).f(\bar{H})=\overline{f(H)} .

Give an example where f,X,Yf, X, Y and HH are as above but f(Hˉ)f(\bar{H}) is not closed.