%0 Journal Article %T A short proof of Toru¨˝czyk's Characterization Theorems %A Jan J. Dijkstra %A Michael Levin %A Jan van Mill %J Mathematics %D 2013 %I arXiv %X We present short proofs of Toru\'nczyk's well-known characterization theorems of the Hilbert cube and Hilbert space, respectively. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.7491v1