ON NEARNESS SPACE

In 1974 H.Herrlich invented nearness spaces, a very fruitful concept which enables one to unify topological aspects. In this paper, we introduce the Lindel$\ddot{o}$f nearness structure, countably bounded nearness structure and countably totally bounded nearness structure. And we show that (X, ${\xi}_L$) is concrete and complete if and only if ${\xi}_L={\xi}_t$ in a symmetric topological space (X, t). Also we show that the following are equivalent in a symmetric topological space (X, t): (1) (X, ${\xi}_L$) is countably totally bounded. (2) (X, ${\xi}_t$) is countably totally bounded. (3) (X, t) is countably compact.