Document Type

Course Materials

Publication Date

Summer 2017

Abstract

In a short paper published just one year prior to his thesis, Maurice Frechet gives a simple generalization one what we might today call the Extreme value theorem. This generalization is a simple matter of coming up with ``the right" definitions in order to make this work. In this mini PSP, we work through Frechet's entire 1.5 page paper to give an extreme value theorem in more general topological spaces, ones which, to use Frechet's newly coined term, are compact.

Applicable Math Courses

topology, analysis

Academic Division

Upper Division Undergraduate

Primary Source Author(s)

Frechet

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License
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