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A History of the Normal Moore Space Problem

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Handbook of the History of General Topology

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This is a thematic history of the normal Moore space problem, which was for many years the general topology problem whose solution was most eagerly sought after. This was partly due to the dominance of the R.L. Moore school of point-set topology, and partly due to the fact that it became enmeshed in set theory from the beginning, and gave rise to a whole area of topology that has been, in the words of Tall [1984] “at the cutting edge of set-theoretic topology, very frequently being the first topological consumer of a new set-theoretic technique”.

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Nyikos, P.J. (2001). A History of the Normal Moore Space Problem. In: Aull, C.E., Lowen, R. (eds) Handbook of the History of General Topology. History of Topology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0470-0_7

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