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Past exam of the topology course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 a iv Solution by
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Use the Sierpiński space with topology . The singleton is compact: from any open cover, choose one member containing . But is not open, so is not closed. This also exhibits why the Hausdorff hypothesis in the preceding proof matters.
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