Do You Know Compact Space?
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In mathematics, and more specifically in general topology, compactness is a property that generalizes the notion of a subset of Euclidean space being closed (that is, containing all its limit point) and bounded (that is, having all its points lie within some fixed distance of each other).
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- 1.Compact Space is studied in ......?
- A.
Mathematics
- B.
History
- C.
Literature
- D.
Music
- 2.Compact Space has the following examples except?
- A.
A rectangle
- B.
A closed interval
- C.
A finite set of points
- D.
A triangle
- 3.Which sometimes the synonym of compact space?
- A.
Compact set
- B.
Vector space
- C.
Lattices
- D.
Polytopes
- 4.In the what century did several disparate mathematical properties were understood that would later be seen as consequences of compactness?
- A.
20th Century
- B.
19th Century
- C.
18th Century
- D.
17th Century
- 5.Who had been aware that any bounded sequence of points (in the line or plane, for instance) has a subsequence that must eventually get arbitrarily close to some other point?
- A.
Isaac Newton
- B.
Bernard Bolzano
- C.
Albert Einstein
- D.
James McCaffrey
- 6.What year did Bernard Bolzano became aware that any bounded sequence of points (in the line or plane, for instance) has a subsequence that must eventually get arbitrarily close to some other point?
- A.
1928
- B.
1888
- C.
1817
- D.
1785
- 7.Bernard Bolzano had been aware that any bounded sequence of points (in the line or plane, for instance) has a subsequence that must eventually get arbitrarily close to some other point, called a .....?
- A.
Decimal point
- B.
Starting point
- C.
Ending point
- D.
Limit point
- 8.Bolzano's proof relied on the method of bisection: the sequence was placed into an interval that was then divided into how many parts?
- A.
Two
- B.
One
- C.
Five
- D.
Four
- 9.The full significance of Bolzano's theorem, and its method of proof was rediscovered by .....?
- A.
Albert Einstein
- B.
James McCaffrey
- C.
Karl Weierstrass
- D.
Isaac Newton
- 10.The full significance of Bolzano's theorem, and its method of proof, would not emerge until almost how many years later when it was rediscovered by Karl Weierstrass?
- A.
50 years
- B.
20 years
- C.
10 years
- D.
100 years
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