Is it good to learn measure theory before topology or the other way around?

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

What would be the best way to go about learning topology and measure theory? Does topology make analysis easier to understand? Or does learning measure theory beforehand make topology easier to understand?

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manpreet 2 years ago

I think learning topology makes analysis easier to understand: Say, in Euclidean space, a convergent sequence cannot have two distinct limits. In classical mathematical analysis one used to pick ϵ0=|ab|2ϵ0=|a−b|2 to deduce the contradiction, where a,ba,b are the limit values. But if we switch into a topological point of view, convergent sequence means eventually its elements lie into a neighbourhood of aa, and also in a neighbourhood of bb. Since in Euclidean we can make those two neighbourhoods to be disjoint, the largest radius to the disjoint neighbourhoods would be |ab|2|a−b|2, that is the reason why we can get a contradiction in assuming the eventually elements lying in those two disjoint neighbourhoods.

It is the Hausdorff property which explains why needs to pick |ab|2|a−b|2 (or smaller) to be a candidate, this is hard to see if we merely do the usual ϵϵ-argument along with triangle inequalities, it is simply a mess. But with the aid of topology, everything is clear, the strategy makes sense.


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