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## Statement

With the axiom of choice we have more generally that:

The orignal proof due to (Stone 48) used that metric spaces are fully normal and showed that fully normal spaces are equivalently paracompact (“Stone’s theorem”).

A direct and short proof was later given in (Rudin 68).

## References

Historically, first it was shown that fully normal spaces are equivalently paracompact in

• A. H. Stone, Paracompactness and product spaces, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 54, Number 10 (1948), 977-982. (Euclid)

Since it is easy to see that metric spaces are fully normal this implies that metric spaces and hence metriable topological spaces are paracompact. Accordingly this statement came to be known as Stone’s theorem.

A direct and short proof that metric spaces are paracompact was given in

• Mary Ellen Rudin?, A new proof that metric spaces are paracompact, AMS 1968 (pdf)

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