A pedagogical history of compactness
History and Overview
2014-06-10 v2
Abstract
This paper traces the history of compactness from the original motivating questions, through the development of the definition, to a generalization of sequential compactness in terms of nets and filters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.4131,
title = {A pedagogical history of compactness},
author = {Manya Raman-Sundstrom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4131},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This paper is a condensed, revised version of my masters thesis, completed at UC Berkeley, Fall 1997