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Homework Statement
Decide whether the following propositions are true or false. If the claim is valid supply a short proof, and if the claim is false provide a counterexample.
a) An arbitrary intersection of compact sets is compact.
b)A countable set is always compact.
The Attempt at a Solution
a) If I took an infinite amount of intersections of closed intervals of the real line, I could get a set that is not bounded, And by the Heine-Borel theorem a set is compact if and only if it is closed and bounded.
b) The set of naturals is countable but not bounded so again by the Heine-Borel theorem this is not true.