Closure (topology): Difference between revisions

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imported>Hendra I. Nurdin
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imported>Pat Palmer
m (Closure moved to Closure mathematical: Need to disambiguate with closure in computer science, which has a somewhat different usage.)
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In mathematics, the closure of a subset A of a topological space X is the set union of A and all its limit points in X. It is usually denoted by . Other equivalent definitions of the closure of A are as the smallest closed set in X containing A, or the intersection of all closed sets in X containing A.