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Closed Boxes in Rn\mathbb{R}^n Are Compact

A product of closed bounded intervals, viewed as a subset of RnR^n with the Euclidean distance, is compact.

Statement

In the setting of Metric Spaces: Balls, the Metric Topology, and the Real and Complex Numbers as Metric Spaces, let n∈Nn\in\mathbb{N}, and let dEd_{E} be the Euclidean distance on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n}, a metric by Rn\mathbb{R}^n with the Euclidean Distance Is a Complete Metric Space with Coordinatewise Convergence (i), with components as in Euclidean Space Rn\mathbb{R}^n: n-Tuples of Real Numbers with Their Componentwise Operations (ii). Let a,b∈Rna,b\in\mathbb{R}^{n} with ak≤bka_{k}\le b_{k} for every k∈[n]k\in[n], and let

Q={x∈Rn:ak≤xk≤bk for every k∈[n]}.Q=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^{n}:a_{k}\le x_{k}\le b_{k}\text{ for every }k\in[n]\}.

QQ is compact in (Rn,TdE)(\mathbb{R}^{n},\mathcal{T}_{d_{E}}).

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