Cont image of connected space is connected proof check?

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I was wondering if someone can tell me if my approach to the proof is a correct one. (rather than typing it all out here and making a mess of the notation, I typed it up in latex and did a screencap then put that on imgur, so the following link has the proof)

http://i.imgur.com/gNFToKx.png
 
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It's a good proof.

You could have simplified a lot of the notation by working with the subspace topology on ##A## and ##f(A)##. This would have simplified the question to: let ##f:X\rightarrow Y## be surjective, then if ##X## is connected then ##Y## is connected. The proof should then be the same as you gave, but the notation would be easier.
 
Thanks so much! I will incorporate this change
 
A sphere as topological manifold can be defined by gluing together the boundary of two disk. Basically one starts assigning each disk the subspace topology from ##\mathbb R^2## and then taking the quotient topology obtained by gluing their boundaries. Starting from the above definition of 2-sphere as topological manifold, shows that it is homeomorphic to the "embedded" sphere understood as subset of ##\mathbb R^3## in the subspace topology.

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