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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2006 E E1 Solution by
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A complete metric space is a metric space in which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point of that space.
Now let be complete in the induced metric. If , choose with . The sequence converges to in , so is a Cauchy sequence. Completeness of supplies a limit . Uniqueness of limits in a metric space gives , hence . Therefore a complete metric subspace is closed.
Completeness does not imply sequential compactness. In the complete space , the sequence has no convergent subsequence: a subsequence has strictly increasing indices , so and is unbounded, whereas every convergent real sequence is bounded.
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