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Posted on Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Tychonoff’s theorem gives confidence that our definitions of compactness and product topology are the correct (i.e., most useful) ones.

(Tychonoff’s theorem says the product of any collection of compact topological spaces is compact.)

SOURCE: The Encyclopedia Wikimedia

true = useful!

Love seeing pragmatism amidst the supposedly aetherial pursuit of mathematical truth.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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