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Handbook of the History of General Topology

  • C. E. Aull
  • R. Lowen
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Part of the History of Topology book series (HIPO, volume 1)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Felix Hausdorff (1868 – 1942)
    Gerhard Preuß
    Pages 1-19
  3. Frederic Riesz’ Contributions to the Foundations of General Topology
    W. J. Thron
    Pages 21-29
  4. The Contributions of L. Vietoris and H. Tietze to the Foundations of General Topology
    Heinrich Reitberger
    Pages 31-40
  5. Some Aspects of the Work and Influence of R. L. Moore
    Ben Fitzpatrick Jr.
    Pages 41-61
  6. The Works of Bronisław Knaster (1893–1980) in Continuum Theory
    Janusz J. Charatonik
    Pages 63-78
  7. Witold Hurewicz — Life and Work
    Karol Borsuk
    Pages 79-84
  8. The Early Work of F. B. Jones
    Mary Ellen Rudin
    Pages 85-96
  9. The Beginning of Topology in the United States and the Moore School
    F. Burton Jones
    Pages 97-103
  10. Some Topologists of the 1940s
    A. H. Stone
    Pages 105-109
  11. Miroslav Katětov (1918 – 1995)
    Petr Simon
    Pages 111-111
  12. Origins of Dimension Theory
    Miroslav Katĕtov, Petr Simon
    Pages 113-134
  13. General Topology, in Particular Dimension Theory, in the Netherlands: The Decisive Influence of Brouwer’s Intuitionism
    Teun Koetsier, Jan Van Mill
    Pages 135-180
  14. The Flowering of General Topology in Japan
    J. Nagata
    Pages 181-241
  15. Rings of Continuous Functions in the 1950s
    Melvin Henriksen
    Pages 243-253
  16. Categorical Topology — Its Origins, as Exemplified by the Unfolding of the Theory of Topological Reflections and Coreflections before 1971
    Horst Herrlich, George Strecker
    Pages 255-341
  17. History of Sequential Convergence Spaces
    R. Frič
    Pages 343-355
  18. Interaction between General Topology and Functional Analysis
    Erwin Kreyszig
    Pages 357-389
  19. Back Matter
    Pages 391-397
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About this book

Keywords

history of mathematics information interaction research topology

Editors and affiliations

  • C. E. Aull
    • 1
  • R. Lowen
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of MathematicsVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityBlacksburgUSA
  2. 2.Department of Mathematics and Computer ScienceUniversity of Antwerp, RUCAAntwerpBelgium

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0468-7
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-90-481-4820-2
  • Online ISBN 978-94-017-0468-7
  • Series Print ISSN 1388-4336
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