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In the beginning. (English) Zbl 0601.54035

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of Bing’s early work in continuum theory - the work he did at the University of Texas before he went to Wisconsin.

MSC:

54F15 Continua and generalizations
54-03 History of general topology
01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
54D05 Connected and locally connected spaces (general aspects)
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[1] Bing, R. H., Concerning simple plane webs, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 60, 113-148 (1946) · Zbl 0060.40310
[2] Bing, R. H., The Kline sphere characterization problem, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 52, 644-653 (1946) · Zbl 0060.40501
[3] Bing, R. H., Solution of a problem of R.L. Wilder, Amer. J. Math., 70, 95-98 (1948) · Zbl 0035.10903
[4] Bing, R. H., A homogeneous indecomposable continuum, Duke Math. J., 15, 729-742 (1948) · Zbl 0035.39103
[5] Moore, R. L., Concerning webs in the plane, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 29, 389-393 (1943) · Zbl 0060.40307
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