English Explanatory Dictionary

Stone-Čech compactification

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.
  2. The space obtained by using this technique.

Word forms

Stone-Čech compactification Stone-Čech compactifications Čech-Stone compactification

Etymology

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

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