Re: Complete metric quotient spaces

[Robert Israel]

In article <Pine.BSI.4.58.0609140326310.7806@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
William Elliot  <marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>---- From: rusty <mr.rusty@xxxxxxx>
>Newsgroups: sci.math
>Subject: Re: Complete metric quotient spaces
>
>William Elliot wrote:
>
>> You gradually seem to be working out what a Polish space is ;-)
>
>A Polish space is any space homeomorphic to a complete metric space?

You left out separable.

>Why's it called Polish?  Because Bourbaki were Polish?

Bourbaki were mostly French.  Sierpinski, Kuratowski, Tarski, Banach etc. 
were Polish.

Robert Israel                                israel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Department of Mathematics        http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel 
University of British Columbia            Vancouver, BC, Canada