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Ahouxf.142 net.math utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!houxi!houxf!sam Thu Apr 8 17:05:11 1982 Compactifications Can anyone help with intuition or references that might impart some intuition about the Stone-Cech compactification? (Sorry about the lack of diacritical marks.) I have both the embedding and filter descriptions and can even manipulate the symbols enough to construct proofs, but have almost no idea of just what I'm dealing with. The Alexandroff compactification is fairly straightforward and doesn't tax my imagination too much to "see it topologically", but this does.

...houxf!sam

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