Claim 1 implies claim 2. Suppose is compact in . Then is closed in by Compact Subset of is Closed, and is bounded in by Compact Subset of is Bounded.
Claim 2 implies claim 1. Suppose is closed in and bounded in . We show that is sequentially compact in .
Let be a sequence in with for every . Since is bounded, Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem in Euclidean Space provides a point and a strictly increasing sequence in such that the subsequence converges to in .
The subsequence is itself a sequence in , and each of its terms lies in because every term of does. Since is closed and this sequence converges to in , the sequential characterization of closed subsets, Sequential Characterization of Closed Subsets of a Metric Space, gives .
Thus every sequence in with all terms in has a subsequence converging to a point of , so is sequentially compact in . By Compactness and Sequential Compactness Agree for Subsets of a Metric Space the set is compact in .
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