Paper 2, Section I, E

Metric and Topological Spaces
Part IB, 2016

Consider R\mathbb{R} and Q\mathbb{Q} with their usual topologies.

(a) Show that compact subsets of a Hausdorff topological space are closed. Show that compact subsets of R\mathbb{R} are closed and bounded.

(b) Show that there exists a complete metric space (X,d)(X, d) admitting a surjective continuous map f:XQf: X \rightarrow \mathbb{Q}.