Stone-Čech compactification
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Etymology[edit]
Named after Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech, who wrote on the topic in 1937.
Noun[edit]
Stone-Čech compactification (countable and uncountable, plural Stone-Čech compactifications) (topology)
- A technique for constructing a universal map from a topological space to a compact Hausdorff space.
- The space obtained by using this technique.