Maurice Fréchet introduced metric spaces in his work Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionnel, Rendic. Circ. Mat. Palermo 22(1906) 1-74.
The term compact was introduced by Fréchet in 1906.
Biography: Maurice René Fréchet
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Metric spaces: 100 years
Maurice Fréchet introduced metric spaces in his work Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionnel, Rendic. Circ. Mat. Palermo 22(1906) 1-74.
The term compact was introduced by Fréchet in 1906.
Biography: Maurice René Fréchet
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