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Session 02 — Strange Topologies

Strange Topologies

Central Question

What can unusual choices of open sets teach us about convergence and continuity?

Why This Matters

Unfamiliar examples expose assumptions inherited from Euclidean intuition and clarify precisely what a topology does and does not record.

Learning Prompt

Explore discrete, indiscrete, cofinite and other interesting topologies. Investigate open and closed sets, convergence and continuity in them. Use these examples to clarify what information a topology actually encodes.

Ideas

Examples

Questions

Connections

One Thing That Surprised Me

Further Rabbit Holes