Stone–Čech compactification
= Stone–Čech compactification
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The Stone–Čech compactification is a mathematical concept in topology that extends a topological space to a compact space in a way that retains certain properties of the original space. It is named after mathematicians Marshall Stone and Eduard Čech. \#\#\# Definition Let \\( X \\) be a completely regular topological space.