Every bounded infinite set in has an accumulation point.
For ,
an infinite subset of a closed bounded set
has an accumulation point
in
.
For instance, given a bounded sequence
, with
for all
, it must have a monotonic
subsequence
.
The subsequence
must converge because it is monotonic and bounded. Because
is closed, it contains the limit of
.
The Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem is closely related to the Heine-Borel theorem and Cantor's intersection theorem, each of which can be easily derived from either of the other two.