Article | REF: AF99 V1

Topology and measurement

Author: Gilles GODEFROY

Publication date: April 10, 2003

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2. Compact spaces

A bounded function, defined on a set E and with real values, generally doesn't reach its bounds, which forces us to handle " ε ", i.e. error terms, in many calculations. The compactness of a metric space avoids this problem.

Definition: let (E,d) be a metric space. The space (E,d)...

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