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Peer reviewedMagill, K. D., Jr. – American Mathematical Monthly, 1988
The problem of finding all topological spaces is considered. Two characterizations are presented whose proofs involve only elementary notions and techniques. The problem is appropriate for students in a beginning topology course after they have been presented with the Embedding Lemma. (DC)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, College Mathematics, Geometry
