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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 1 22F c Solution by
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Suppose is equicontinuous. At each , choose a neighbourhood such thatfor every and every . If some differed from , the Urysohn lemma for the compact Hausdorff space would give a continuous function with and , a contradiction. Thus every singleton is open, so is discrete. A compact discrete space is finite, proving
Compactness is essential. Any infinite set with the discrete topology has equicontinuous , because the singleton neighbourhood works simultaneously for every function, but the space is infinite.
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