A short elementary proof of the Bishop–Stone–Weierstrass theorem

DOI10.1017/S0305004100062204zbMath0537.41018MaRDI QIDQ3322561

Thomas Ransford

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Stone-Weierstrass theoremsets of antisymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract approximation theory (approximation in normed linear spaces and other abstract spaces) (41A65) Approximation by polynomials (41A10) Topological linear spaces of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E10)

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