Aspects of Topology
In Memory of Hugh Dowker 1912–1982

This is a memorial volume to the distinguished Canadian-born mathematician Hugh Dowker.

I. M. James (Edited by), E. H. Kronheimer (Edited by)

9780521278157, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 31 January 1985

356 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.493 kg

This is a memorial volume to the distinguished Canadian-born mathematician Hugh Dowker, one of the most highly regarded topologists in the United Kingdom and sometime Professor at Birkbeck College, London. The volume comprises specially written articles on various topological topics by experts in many countries who worked with Dowker at one time or another. These include survey, expository and research articles on general topology, algebraic topology and related subjects such as knot theory and graph theory. The volume will be of great interest to graduate students and professional mathematicians whose speciality is topology, in all its aspects.

1. Obituary: Clifford Hugh Dowker Dona Strauss
2. Knot tabulations and related topics Morwen B. Thistlethwaite
3. How general is a generalized space? Peter T. Johnstone
3. A survey of metrization theory J. Nagata
4. Some thoughts on lattice valued functions and relations M. W. Warner
5. General topology over a base I. M. James
6. K-Dowker spaces M. E. Rudin
7. Graduation and dimension in locales J. Isbell
8. A geometrical approach to degree theory and the Leray-Schauder index J. Dugundji
9. On dimension theory B. A. Pasynkov
10. An equivariant theory of retracts Sergey Antonian
11. P-embedding, LCn spaces and the homotopy extension property Kiiti Morita
12. Special group automorphisms and special self-homotopy equivalences Peter Hilton
13. Rational homotopy and torus actions Stephen Halperin
14. Remarks on stars and independent sets P. Erdös and J. Pach
15. Compact and compact Hausdorff A. H. Stone
16. T1 - and T2 axioms for frames C. H. Dowker and D. Strauss.

Subject Areas: Algebraic topology [PBPD]