Lectures on Constructive Mathematics. - Mathematics, Algorithms ...
Lectures on Constructive Mathematics. - Mathematics, Algorithms ...
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Metric spaces<br />
The elementary c<strong>on</strong>structive noti<strong>on</strong>s associated with a metric space (X; ) are<br />
more or less as in classical mathematics.<br />
Note that when there are alternative classical de…niti<strong>on</strong>s, these may not be<br />
equivalent c<strong>on</strong>structively. In that case, we choose the most computati<strong>on</strong>ally<br />
informative noti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
For example, we do not de…ne closed sets as complements of open sets: a<br />
closed set S is de…ned to be <strong>on</strong>e that equals it closure S; in other words, S is<br />
closed in X if and <strong>on</strong>ly if all limits of sequences in S bel<strong>on</strong>g to S.<br />
We denote the open and closed balls in X with centre a and radius r > 0 by<br />
B(a; r) and B(a; r) respectively.