Handbook of the History of General Topology

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Felix Hausdorff (1868 – 1942).
• Frederic Riesz’ Contributions to the Foundations of General Topology.
• The Contributions of L. Vietoris and H. Tietze to the Foundations of General Topology.
• Some Aspects of the Work and Influence of R. L. Moore.
• The Works of Bronislaw Knaster (1893–1980) in Continuum Theory.
• Witold Hurewicz — Life and Work.
• The Early Work of F. B. Jones.
• The Beginning of Topology in the United States and the Moore School.
• Some Topologists of the 1940s.
• Miroslav Kat? tov (1918 – 1995).
• Origins of Dimension Theory.
• General Topology, in Particular Dimension Theory, in The Netherlands: the Decisive Influence of Brouwer’s Intuitionism.
• The Flowering of General Topology in Japan.
• Rings of Continuous Functions in the 1950s.
• Categorical Topology — its Origins, as exemplified by the Unfolding of the Theory of Topological Reflections and Coreflections before 1971.
• History of Sequential Convergence Spaces.
• Interaction between General Topology and Functional Analysis.