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Some Topologists of the 1940s

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The following observations, more gossip than history, are concerned with some of the topologists whom I encountered and who influenced me in the 1940s (and a little earlier). In those days the distinction between “general” and “algebraic” or “combinatorial” topology was less rigid than now, and many mathematicians were interested in both—Alexander and Hurewicz, for example. So I shall not always try to maintain this distinction.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    A. H. Stone

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

    C. E. Aull

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, RUCA, Antwerp, Belgium

    R. Lowen

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Stone, A.H. (1997). Some Topologists of the 1940s. In: Aull, C.E., Lowen, R. (eds) Handbook of the History of General Topology. History of Topology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0468-7_9

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