A topological space that contains a homeomorphic image of every topological space of a certain class.
A metric space 
is said to be universal for a family of metric
spaces 
if any space from 
is isometrically embeddable in 
. Fréchet (1910) proved that 
, the space of all bounded sequences of real numbers
endowed with a supremum norm, is a universal space for the family 
of all separable metric spaces. Holsztynski (1978) proved
that there exists a metric 
on 
, inducing the usual topology, such that every finite metric
space embeds in 
(Ovchinnikov 2000).
as a Universal Metric Space."
Not. Amer. Math. Soc. 25, A-367, 1978.Ovchinnikov, S.
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