Urysohn's lemma

English

Etymology

Named after the mathematician Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn.

Proper noun

Urysohn's lemma

  1. (topology) A lemma stating that a topological space is normal if and only if any two disjoint closed subsets can be separated by a continuous function.
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