Stone-Čech compactification

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Etymology

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

Noun

Stone-Čech compactification (countable and uncountable, plural Stone-Čech compactifications) (topology)

  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.
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