All Questions

In rereading Thurston's essay On Proof and Progress in Mathematics I ran across this passage: … this means that some concepts that I use freely and naturally in my personal thinking are foreign to ...

Currently I am reading a paper titled "On the Group of Homeomorphisms of an Arc" by N.J Fine and G.E. Schweigert, that was published by Annals of Mathematics in 1955. This paper talks about the group ...

Possible Duplicate: How to understand the concept of compact space Hello, I am learning some analysis on my own and what is the motivation to consider compactness? eg. I do not understand why ...

the definition of compact space is: A subset K of a metric space X is said to be compact if every open cover of K contains finite subcovers. What is the meaning of defining a space is "compact". I ...