TITLE: A compact operator is completely continuous.
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: I have a question.
If $X$ and $Y$ are Banach spaces, we have to prove that a compact linear operator is completely continuous.
 A mapping $T \colon X \to Y$ is called completely continuous, if it maps a weakly convergent sequence in $X$ to a strongly convergent sequence in
$Y$ , i.e., $x_n\underset{n\to +\infty}\rightharpoonup x$  implies $\lVert Tx_n- 
Tx\rVert_Y\to 0$.

REPLY [6 votes]: Since it's a homework question I will just give some steps.

By linearity, we can assume that $x=0$.
We have to show that for each subsequence of $\{Tx_n\}$, we can extract a further subsequence which converges to $0$ in norm in $Y$.
A weakly converging sequence is bounded. 
$T$ maps bounded sets to sets with a compact closure. 

Once the second steps is shown, we can conclude. Indeed, assume that $Tx_n$ doesn't converge to $0$. Then we are able to find $\delta>0$ and $A$ an infinite subset of the natural numbers such that $\lVert Tx_k\rVert_Y\geq\delta$ for each element of $A$. We can consider it as a subsequence, and we can't extract a further subsequence which converges to $0$, a contradiction.