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Space in Math

Space

A set of objects is a collection. When you add structure to the set, you now have space.

For example:

Space typeExtra structure
Setnothing
Topological spacenotion of continuity
Metric spacenotion of distance
Vector spaceaddition + scalar multiplication
Measure spacenotion of size / probability

Metric space for example introduces distance namely, d(x,y)d(x,y).

Structure

Two types of structure we can apply is algebraic structure and toplogical structure. New rules generate new spaces.

                         ┌──────────────────────────────┐
          SETS
  (just collections of things)│
                         └─────────────┬────────────────┘

                    ┌──────────────────┴──────────────────┐

           ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURE                    TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE

        ┌───────────┴───────────┐                ┌────────┴────────┐

   Groups / Rings          Vector Spaces   Topological Spaces   Measure Spaces


                                           ┌───────┴───────┐

                                      Metric Spaces    Uniform Spaces

                                    ┌──────┴──────┐

                              Normed Vector   Riemannian /
                                  Spaces        Metric Geometry

                           ┌────────┴────────┐

                     Banach Spaces      Inner Product Spaces

                           └────────┬────────┘

                              Hilbert Spaces

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