History
The first formal definition of covering dimension was given by Eduard Čech. It was based on earlier result of Henri Lebesgue.
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“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations ... all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The true theater of history is therefore the temperate zone.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)