Stone-Čech compactification

noun

Etymology

Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937.

Definitions

  1. A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact…

    A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.

  2. The space obtained by using this technique.

The neighborhood

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