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Past exam of the options II for mathematics and philosophy course of the University of Oxford 2013 E3 a i Solution by
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If is closed and converges to , then cannot lie in the open complement: an open ball about such an would eventually contain all while missing . Thus .
Conversely, suppose contains every limit of a sequence in . If , every ball meets ; choose in that intersection. Then , so . Hence , proving that a subset of a metric space is a closed set exactly when it is sequentially closed.
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