Chapter 1 Felix Hausdorff (1868 – 1942)

Chapter 2 Frederic Riesz’ Contributions to the Foundations of General Topology

Chapter 3 The Contributions of L. Vietoris and H. Tietze to the Foundations of General Topology

Chapter 4 Some Aspects of the Work and Influence of R. L. Moore

Chapter 5 The Works of Bronisław Knaster (1893–1980) in Continuum Theory

Chapter 6 Witold Hurewicz — Life and Work

Chapter 7 The Early Work of F. B. Jones

Chapter 8 The Beginning of Topology in the United States and the Moore School

Chapter 9 Some Topologists of the 1940s

Chapter 10 Miroslav Katětov (1918 – 1995)

Chapter 11 Origins of Dimension Theory

Chapter 12 General Topology, in Particular Dimension Theory, in the Netherlands: The Decisive Influence of Brouwer’s Intuitionism

Chapter 13 The Flowering of General Topology in Japan

Chapter 14 Rings of Continuous Functions in the 1950s

Chapter 15 Categorical Topology — Its Origins, as Exemplified by the Unfolding of the Theory of Topological Reflections and Coreflections before 1971

Chapter 17 Interaction between General Topology and Functional Analysis