Polish Spaces
Descriptive set theory begins with the study of Polish spaces and their Borel sets.
A Polish space is a second countable topological space that is metrizable with a complete metric. Equivalently, it is a complete separable metric space whose metric has been "forgotten". Examples include the real line, the Baire space, the Cantor space, and the Hilbert cube .
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