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Past exam of the options II for mathematics and philosophy course of the University of Oxford 2013 E4 a ii Solution by
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If the intersection were empty, the open complements would cover the compact space. A finite subcover would give an empty finite intersection of the corresponding . But the sets are nested, so any finite intersection is the set with largest index, which is nonempty. This contradiction provesThis is the nested-closed-set form of the finite intersection property for compact spaces.
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