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Continuum theory, point-set topology, spaces with algebraic structure, foundations, dimension theory, local and global properties.

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motivation for compactness

First of all, the term "compact" is perhaps well-suited because any open cover has a finite ("small") sub-cover. But more generally, compactness generalizes certain properties of closed and bounded in …
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