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Stone-Čech compactification
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English
Alternative forms
en Čech-Stone compactification
Etymology
Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937.
Noun
~ en topology
A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.
The space obtained by using this technique.
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