Definition:Product Topology/Also known as

Product Topology: Also known as
The product topology is also known as the Tychonoff topology, named for.

While both of these terms are commonly used on, the preference is for product topology.

Various other terms can be found in the literature for the product space, for example:
 * direct product
 * topological product
 * Tychonoff product

but these terms are less precise, and there exists the danger of confusion with other similar uses of these terms in different contexts.

Note that the topological space $\struct {\XX, \tau}$ itself is never referred to as a Tychonoff space.

This is because a Tychonoff space is a different concept altogether.