Description: Equivalent ways of stating the finite intersection property. We show two ways of saying, "the intersection of elements in every finite nonempty subcollection of A is in A ". This theorem is applicable to a topology, which (among other axioms) is closed under finite intersections. Some texts use the left-hand version of this axiom and others the right-hand version, but as our proof here shows, their "intuitively obvious" equivalence can be non-trivial to establish formally. (Contributed by NM, 22-Sep-2002)
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Assertion | fiint | |