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#1 2010-05-06 07:24:21

JaneFairfax
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Tychonoff’s theorem

Tychonoff’s theorem: http://z8.invisionfree.com/DYK/index.php?showtopic=900


Tychonoff’s theorem has applications in modern analysis. It is also used to prove the Heine–Borel theorem, namely that all closed and bounded subspaces of
are compact.

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#2 2010-05-11 07:48:21

JaneFairfax
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Re: Tychonoff’s theorem

More about Tychonoff’s theorem.


Tychonoff’s theorem in the infinite case is equivalent to the axiom of choice. The converse to Tychonoff’s theorem is also true because if
is compact, then each
, being a continous projection of
, must be compact as well.

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#3 2010-05-13 07:06:29

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Re: Tychonoff’s theorem

Oh, and Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff (1906–93) was a Russian mathematician.

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