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An Analysis of the First Proofs of the Heine-Borel Theorem
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Andre, Nicole R., Susannah M. Engdahl and Adam E. Parker, "An Analysis of the First Proofs of the Heine-Borel Theorem," Loci (July 2012), DOI: 10.4169/loci003890