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Loci: Convergence

An Analysis of the First Proofs of the Heine-Borel Theorem

by Nicole R. Andre (Wittenberg University), Susannah M. Engdahl (Wittenberg University) and Adam E. Parker (Wittenberg University)

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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


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