A Pedagogical History of Compactness

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.122.7.619MaRDI QIDQ3459991zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Manya Raman-Sundström

Publication date 11 January 2016

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.4131, http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-106686

zbMATH Keywords

compactnesscountable compactnesssequential compactness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of general topology (54-03) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to history and biography (01-01)

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.

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