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What is your favorite proof of Tychonoff's Theorem?

Here is mine. It's taken from page 11 of "An Introduction To Abstract Harmonic Analysis", 1953, by Loomis: https://archive.org/details/introductiontoab031610mbp https://ia800309.us.archive....
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Applications of compactness [closed]

Similar to this question: Applications of connectedness I want to collect applications of compactness. E.g.: compact + discrete => finite, which can be used to prove the finiteness of the ...