ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Locally Hausdorff space

Alright kiddo, have you ever heard of a house? A house has different rooms in it, right? Each room is separate and you can close the door to keep things in that room from getting into the other rooms.

Well, a locally Hausdorff space is kind of like a house with different rooms. It's a space made up of different pieces, called "open sets," which are like the rooms in a house. These open sets are special because if you pick any two points in an open set, you can find another open set that contains one of those points but doesn't contain the other.

This might sound kind of confusing, so here's an example. Imagine you have a playground with swings and a slide. The swings are one open set and the slide is another. If you're playing on the swings and your friend is playing on the slide, you can't touch each other because you're in different open sets. But, there's another open set of the whole playground that contains both the swings and the slide, so you can both hang out there.

Basically, a locally Hausdorff space is a space where you can divide it up into different pieces and there's no overlap between those pieces. This can be really helpful in math when you want to study different parts of a space separately, but still be able to combine those parts to see the whole picture.