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Metric Spaces

In: A Comprehensive Textbook on Metric Spaces

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  • Surinder Pal Singh Kainth

    (Panjab University, Department of Mathematics)

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Exploring the properties of real functions or sequences is just the beginning. A few answers lead to several questions. Can we extend our results from $$\mathbb {R}$$ R to more general spaces, such as the plane $$\mathbb {R}^2$$ R 2 or the three-dimensional space $$\mathbb {R}^3$$ R 3 or to $$\mathbb {R}^n?$$ R n ? Sometimes the proofs depend only upon a few properties of the underlying space. The ones which depend only upon the distance function can be extended to metric spaces. A metric space is defined to be a nonempty set along with a distance function having some particular properties. This chapter presents a vast collection of metric spaces, including the particular cases of normed spaces and sequence spaces. To provide a glimpse into generalizations from reals, we have included a section on convergence of sequences in metric spaces which also contains the case of finite-dimensional Euclidean spaces.

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  • Surinder Pal Singh Kainth, 2023. "Metric Spaces," Springer Books, in: A Comprehensive Textbook on Metric Spaces, chapter 0, pages 39-61, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-99-2738-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-99-2738-8_2
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