Handbook of the History of General Topology
By: edited by C. E. Aull, R. Lowen
Contributors: Lowen, R.
Series: History of Topology -- 1; History of Topology -- 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9789048148202; 9789401704687
Subjects: Mathematics; History; Philosophy; Science; Topology
Description: This book is the first one of a work in several volumes, treating the history of the development of topology. The work contains papers which can be classified into 4 main areas. Thus there are contributions dealing with the life and work of individual topologists, with specific schools of topology, with research in topology in various countries, and with the development of topology in different periods. The work is not restricted to topology in the strictest sense but also deals with applications and generalisations in a broad sense. Thus it also treats, e.g., categorical topology, interactions with functional analysis, convergence spaces, and uniform spaces. Written by specialists in the field, it contains a wealth of information which is not available anywhere else.
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