why compact operator has countable number of eigenvalues?

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I was reading following proof.enter image description here

I understand whole proof.But I don’t see where author Proved fact that compact operator has countable number of eigenvalues

Any help will be appreciated thanks a lot

Lemma 5.4 is Reisz Lemma

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Hint: a subset of $\mathbb C$ with at most one limit point is countable.