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1993 Joint Mathematics Meetings
San Antonio, TX, January 13-16, 1993
Meeting #878
Associate secretaries: W Wistar Comfort , AMS wcomfort@wesleyan.edu
Kenneth A Ross , MAA ross@math.uoregon.edu
AMS Special Session on History of General Topology
Friday January 15, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on History of General Topology, I
8:00 a.m.
Toward an outline history of general topology.
C. E. Aull* , Virginia Polytech Institute & State University
(878-54-353)
8:30 a.m.
Maurice Frechet and abstract general topology.
Angus E. Taylor* , University of California, Berkeley
(878-01-135)
9:00 a.m.
Dilemma in topolgy (and in science): Bizarre vs. common.
Andrew Lelek* , University of Houston
(878-54-427)
9:30 a.m.
The Alexandroff-Sorgenfrey line.
Douglas E. Cameron* , Clemson University
(878-54-429)
10:00 a.m.
The history of some famous counterexamples in topology.
Stephen Watson* , York University,
(878-01-800)
10:30 a.m.
Counterexamples in topology.
George M. Reed* , University of Oxford, England
(878-54-633)
Friday January 15, 1993, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m. AMS Special Session on History of General Topology, II
1:00 p.m.
Observations on topologies of the 1940's.
A. H. Stone* , Northeastern University
(878-54-53)
1:30 p.m.
Witold Hurewicz and dimension theory.
K. Kuperberg* , Auburn University, Auburn
(878-01-497)
2:00 p.m.
The work and influence of R. L. Moore.
Ben Fitzpatrick, Jr.* , Incarnate Word College
(878-01-32)
2:30 p.m.
Bing's general topology.
Michael Starbird* , University of Texas, Austin
(878-54-673)
3:00 p.m.
The early work of F. B. Jones.
Mary Ellen Rudin* , University of Wisconsin, Madison
(878-54-03)
3:30 p.m.
The history of the normal Moore space problem.
Peter J. Nyikos* , University of South Carolina, Columbia
(878-01-761)
Saturday January 16, 1993, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. AMS Special Session on History of General Topology, III
8:00 a.m.
History of topological groups.
Dmitri B. Shakhmatov* , Miami University
(878-54-205)
8:30 a.m.
Metrization.
Robert W. Heath* , University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
(878-01-531)
9:00 a.m.
Generalized metric spaces.
Gary Gruenhage* , Auburn University, Auburn
(878-01-445)
9:30 a.m.
Minimal spaces - Now and then.
Jack R. Porter* , University of Kansas
Robert M. Stephenson, Jr. , University of South Carolina, Columbia
(878-54-407)
10:00 a.m.
Rings of continuous functions in the 1950's.
Melvin Henriksen* , Harvey Mudd College
(878-01-573)
10:30 a.m.
History of cardinal invariants.
A. V. Arhangel$'$skii* , Moscow University, Russia
(878-54-706)
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