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This chapter covers the basic topology of the real line. Many of the notions of this chapters, such as derived sets, closed sets, dense-in-itself sets, and perfect sets, were first introduced by Cantor during his study of the real continuum.
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Dasgupta, A. (2014). Real Sets and Functions. In: Set Theory. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8854-5_14
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