 Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-topology-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014/1/b/i/solution

A proper closed subset in the cofinite topology is finite, so cannot contain the infinite subset

A

. Its only closed superset is therefore the whole space:

\overline{A} = X .

In particular, every infinite subset is dense in this topology.

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