Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 ib Paper 2 1E Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
A metric space is a complete metric space when every Cauchy sequence converges to a point of that space. It is a totally bounded space when, for every , finitely many open metric balls of radius cover the space.
With their usual distances, is complete but not totally bounded, and is totally bounded but not complete. The Cauchy sequence in has its limit outside the space; no finite collection of balls of a fixed radius covers .
For the requested continuous functions, takeandBoth are continuous and onto. The domain of is a complete metric space, but its image is not complete because tends to the missing point . The domain of is a totally bounded space, but its unbounded image is not totally bounded. Uniform continuity, unlike mere continuity, would preserve total boundedness.