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Comfort, William Wistar was born on April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard and Elizabeth (Webb) Comfort.
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Chain Conditions in Topology (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
(A chain condition is a property, typically involving cons...)
A chain condition is a property, typically involving considerations of cardinality, of the family of open subsets of a topological space. (Sample questions: (a) How large a fmily of pairwise disjoint open sets does the space admit? (b) From an uncountable family of open sets, can one always extract an uncountable subfamily with the finite intersection property. This monograph, which is partly fresh research and partly expository (in the sense that the authors co-ordinate and unify disparate results obtained in several different countries over a period of several decades) is devoted to the systematic use of infinitary combinatorial methods in topology to obtain results concerning chain conditions. The combinatorial tools developed by P. Erdös and the Hungarian school, by Erdös and Rado in the 1960s and by the Soviet mathematician Shanin in the 1940s, are adequate to handle many natural questions concerning chain conditions in product spaces.
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Continuous Pseudometrics (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
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Chain Conditions in Topology CHAIN CONDITIONS IN TOPOLOGY By Comfort, W. W. ( Author )Nov-01-2008 Paperback
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William Wistar Comfort
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William Wistar Comfort, American mathematics professor. Recipient Excellence-in-Teaching Award, University Rochester, 1966. Bd mgrs Haverford Col, 1971—1974; trustee Ind Day Sch, Middlefield, Connecticut, 1972—1975; Member of American Association of University Professors, Asn Concerned Scientists, Conn Academy Science and Eng, Am Math Society (coun 1972-1975, 1982-1993, assoc secy eastern region 1982-1993), Math Asn Am, Phi Beta Kappa.
Education
Bachelor, Haverford College, 1954. Master of Science, University Washington, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, University Washington, 1958.
Master of Arts ad eundem gradum, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1969.
Career
Teaching assistant, research assistant University Washington, Seattle, 1954-1958. B. Peirce instructor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1961. Assistant professor University Rochester, New York, 1961-1965.
Associate professor University Massachusetts, Amherst, 1965-1967. Professor mathematics Wesleyan University, 1967—2007, Edward Burr Van Vleck professor mathematics, 1982—2007, chairman department, 1969-1970, 80-82, 96-97. Retired, 2007
Vis professor University Ark, 1965, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1970—1971, University Heidelberg, 1974, Istituto Matematico Leonida Tonelli, Pisa, Italy, 1974, Athens University, Greece, 1978, University Nacional Autonoma de Mex, 1983, University São Paolo, 1983, 99, Vrije University, Amsterdam, 1984, 95, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, 1991, University Jaume I Castellon, Spain, 1995.
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Chain Conditions in Topology (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
(A chain condition is a property, typically involving cons...)
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Chain Conditions in Topology (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
(A chain condition is a property, typically involving cons...)
- Continuous Pseudometrics (Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics)
- Chain Conditions in Topology CHAIN CONDITIONS IN TOPOLOGY By Comfort, W. W. ( Author )Nov-01-2008 Paperback
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Chain Conditions in Topology (Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics)
Membership
Board managers Haverford College, 1971-1974. Trustee Indiana Day School, Middlefield, Connecticut, 1972-1975. Member American Association of University Professors, Mathematics Association American, American Mathematics Society (county 1972-1975, 82-93, associate secretary Eastern region 1982-1993), New York Academy Sciences, Connecticut Academy Science and Engineering, Association Concerned Scientists, Phi Beta Kappa.
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Married Mary Constance Lyon, March 30, 1957. Children: Martha Wistar, Howard III.
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