Non-Trivial Particular Point Topology is not T4/Mistake

Source Work

 * Part $\text{II}$: Counterexamples
 * Section $8 - 10$: Particular Point Topology
 * Item $4$
 * Item $4$

This mistake can be seen in the second edition (1978) as republished by Dover in 1995: ISBN 0-486-68735-X

Mistake

 * "Every particular point topology is $T_0$, but since there are no disjoint open sets, none of the higher separation axioms are satisfied unless $X$ has only one point."

In the above, $X$ is a particular point space.

However, this is not true for the $T_4$ axiom.

The Sierpiński space is a particular point topology with exactly two points.

But the Sierpiński Space is T4.

Also see

 * Particular Point Topology with Three Points is not T4