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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2012 E E2 d Solution by
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Let and be countable bases of the two factors. The familyis countable, since the Cartesian product of two countable sets is countable. It is a basis of a topology for the product topology: given a product-open neighbourhood of , choose a contained open rectangle , then basis members with and . Their product contains and is contained in the original neighbourhood. ThereforeIn standard terminology, a finite product of second-countable spaces is second-countable.
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