Timeline for Finiteness as a motivation for compactness
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 13, 2016 at 2:51 | comment | added | LSpice | Surely there is no conflict between your statement "the true mathematical heart of the idea of compactness is 'covering'" and the popular slogan "the historical motivations for the idea of compactness were 'finiteness'"? | |
| Feb 16, 2015 at 14:19 | comment | added | Manya | Thanks for the comment. I will be interested to see what others think about it. To me, it is not immediately clear that covering and finiteness are at odds. But you, I am sure, know more about this than I do! | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 18:26 | history | answered | Paul Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |