Abstract Alejandro Aguado (ISU), Kuratowski's Closure-Complement Problem

Abstract: In this talk I will give a proof of Kuratowski's theorem that starting with a subset A of a topological space X, and alternately taking closures and complements, one never obtains more than 14 different sets. I will discuss some examples, and I will construct a set on the real line for which one obtains exactly 14 different sets.


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