Timeline for First occurrence of "by the usual compactness argument"?
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| Oct 9, 2013 at 23:58 | vote | accept | Gerry Myerson | ||
| Sep 30, 2013 at 20:03 | comment | added | Moritz Firsching | Yes, I guess this was sometimes around 1923/24, in some French and German papers. | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 18:10 | comment | added | Włodzimierz Holsztyński | Lets add that it was Alexandrov and Urysohn who introduced (invented) the general modern notion of compactness (called by them bi-compactness). | |
| Sep 30, 2013 at 10:54 | history | answered | Moritz Firsching | CC BY-SA 3.0 |