Which of the following subsets of $\mathbb R^n$ are compact?

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Which of the following sets are compact?

$1.\{({1\over n},{1\over m})\in \mathbb R^2:m,n\in \mathbb Z\}\bigcup \{(0,0)\}\bigcup \{({1\over n},0):n\in \mathbb Z\}\bigcup \{(0,{1\over n}): n\in \mathbb Z\}$

$2.\{(x,y,z)\in \mathbb R^3: |x|+|2y|+|3z|\le 1\}$

$3.\{(x,y,z)\in \mathbb R^3:x^2+2y^2-3z^2=1\}$

$4.\{(x_1,x_2,....,x_n)\in \mathbb R^n:x_1+x_2+x_3+.....+x_n=0\}$

Option $4$ is clearly unbounded so not compact.

For option $3$, $x^2+2y^2=1+3z^2$ so the set , is unbounded for arbitrarily large values of $z$ will take up arbitrarily large values of $x$ and $y$ so unbounded.

Option $2$ is bounded since the equation is basically sum of three positive numbers less than $1$.How do I show that it is closed as well?

For Option $1$,the set is bounded and I can see the set $ \{(0,0)\}\bigcup \{({1\over n},0):n\in \mathbb Z\}\bigcup \{(0,{1\over n}): n\in \mathbb Z\}$ is closed itself and is a set of limit points of the set $\{({1\over n},{1\over m})\in \mathbb R^2:m,n\in \mathbb Z\}$. Now if only I could show that those are the only limit points the set $\{({1\over n},{1\over m})\in \mathbb R^2:m,n\in \mathbb Z\}$ can have then I would be sure that it was compact. How do I prove that? Thank you.