The first English translation of The doctor of his honor was published by The Hausdorff Center for Mathematics in Bonn
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Felix Hausdorff
Felix Hausdorff was a German mathematician, pseudonym Paul Mongré, who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, and functional analysis.
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Born 8 November 1868 · Died 26 January 1942 · Q75856
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2006· 1 entry
Did this epilogue have its premier at the annual meeting of the German Mathematical Society in Bonn
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2000· 1 entry
Published “PhysioBank, PhysioToolkit, and PhysioNet” in Circulation — cited 12,152 times.
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1942· 1 entry
Died 1942-01-26.
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1939· 1 entry
Hausdorff asked the mathematician Richard Courant, in vain, for a research fellowship to be able to emigrate into the USA
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1938· 1 entry
Hausdorff's last work Extension of a continuous map showed that a continuous function from a closed subset
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1935· 3 entries
After some back and forth, Hausdorff was finally given emeritus status
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There was an expanded edition published, and this was reprinted by Dover in 1944
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Where Hausdorff discussed spaces which fulfilled the Kuratowski closure axioms up to the axiom of idempotence
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1933· 1 entry
Because he had been a German public servant since before 1914
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1930· 1 entry
In Extending a homeomorphism, he showed the following: Let
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1928· 1 entry
A review of Set Theory was written by Hans Hahn, who perhaps had the danger of German antisemitism in his mind as he closed his discussion with the following sentence:
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1921· 1 entry
Developed a whole class of summation methods for divergent series, which today are called Hausdorff methods
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1920· 1 entry
Played a special role in the reception of Hausdorff's ideas
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1919· 1 entry
In About semi-continuous functions and their generalization, Hausdorff had, among other things, given another proof of the Tietze extension theorem
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1916· 1 entry
Alexandroff and Hausdorff independently solved the continuum problem for Borel sets: Every Borel set in a complete separable metric space is either countable or has the cardinality of the continuum
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1908· 1 entry
Arthur Moritz Schoenflies found in his report on set theory that the newer theory of ordered sets (i
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1904· 2 entries
Hausdorff published the recursion named after him, which states that for each non-limit ordinal
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In the magazine The New Rundschau, Hausdorff's play appeared, the one-act play The doctor of his honor
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1901· 1 entry
Hausdorff began lecturing on set theory
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1899· 1 entry
Hausdorff married Charlotte Goldschmidt, the daughter of Jewish doctor Siegismund Goldschmidt
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1897· 1 entry
Was his first work published under the pseudonym Paul Mongré
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1895· 1 entry
His Habilitation also followed with a thesis on the absorbance of light in the atmosphere
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1891· 1 entry
With a work on the theory of astronomical refraction of light in the atmosphere
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-11-08.
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