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Finite sets occupy a special position amongst all sets; it is the compact spaces which occupy the corresponding place among topological spaces.
O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Hamlet, II,ii.
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Searcóid, M.Ó. (2002). Compactness. In: Elements of Abstract Analysis. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0179-6_11
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