Lebl-Basic-Analysis-I · Problem 1.4.6

Real Numbers

Mathematics · intervals-cardinality

Problem

a) Show that every closed interval [a,b][a, b] is the intersection of countably many open intervals. b) Show that every open interval (a,b)(a, b) is a countable union of closed intervals. c) Show that an intersection of a possibly infinite family of bounded closed intervals, ⋂λ∈I[aλ,bλ]\bigcap_{\lambda \in I} [a_\lambda, b_\lambda], is either empty, a single point, or a bounded closed interval.

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