investigation of some topological properties

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There seems to be many lemmas and propositions in these notes where they skip many proofs(which makes my learning rather hard) because maybe the author thinks it is straightforward, but I don't seem to see why it is the case for instance this lemma on interior points:

Lemma 4.62: $x \in \text{int} (A),$ iff there is an open set $B$, such that $x\in B$ and $x\in B \subset A. $

This lemma does not seem so straightforward to me, can anyone give me a proof to this? I would appreciate the help.

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$\mathsf{int}(A)$ can be defined as union of all open subsets of $A$.

As a union of open sets it is open itself, and can be characterized as the "largest" open subset of $A$.

It means actually that: $$B\subseteq A\text{ and }\ B\text{ open }\implies B\subseteq\mathsf{int}(A)\tag1$$

If $x\in\mathsf{int}(A)$ then there is indeed an open set $B$ with $x\in B\subseteq A$ because we can simply take $B=\mathsf{int}(A)$.

If conversely $x\in B\subseteq A$ where $B$ is open then $B\subseteq\mathsf{int}(A)$ as a consequence of $(1)$.