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Our goal in this chapter is to show that most of the concepts introduced in the previous chapters for the set \(\mathbb{R}\) of real numbers can be extended to any abstract metric space, i.e., a set on which the concept of metric (or distance) can be defined.
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Sohrab, H.H. (2014). Metric Spaces. In: Basic Real Analysis. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1841-6_5
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