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Do countable Hausdorff connected topological spaces exist?

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Yes, see here (MathOverflow) for references to some non-trivial examples.

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Trivially yes, a singleton for example ;). Non-trivial examples abound, for example ''A countable connected Hausdorff space'' by Brown, in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 59 (1953) p. 367.

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    My mistake!I didn' t mean the trivial example2011-01-07
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    I assume "countable" here means countably infinite.2011-01-07
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    I thought so :). I added a reference that you might find interesting. In general these things are quite strange. But I guess you can get more out of Theo's link.2011-01-07
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    Yes indeed .Is there another meaning that I'm not aware of?2011-01-07
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    I believe Qiaochu is only implying that my 'singleton' response was not a valid example.2011-01-07
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    @t.spero: some people use "countable" to mean "at most countable."2011-01-07
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Gustin's Sequence Space

Irrational Slope Topology

Prime Integer Topology

Relatively Prime Integer Topology

Roy's Lattice Space