Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2018/ii/paper-1/22f/c/solution

Suppose is equicontinuous. At each , choose a neighbourhood such that
for 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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