Definition:Compact Space/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Compact Space
Hermann Weyl is reported as having made the observation:
- If a city is compact, it can be guarded by a finite number of arbitrarily near-sighted policemen.
The specific source of this quote is the subject of research.
Sources
- 1960: The role of compactness in analysis (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 67: pp. 499 – 516) www.jstor.org/stable/2309166
- 1975: W.A. Sutherland: Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces ... (previous) ... (next): $5$: Compact spaces: $5.2$: Definition of compactness: Remark $5.2.3 \ \text {(c)}$