Felix Hausdorff laid the foundations of set theoretic topology, which has evolved into an elaborate discipline that interacts with nearly every other field of mathematics. He precisely developed such basic notions as limits, continuous maps,...

1869-1942 Hausdorff was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in the latter part of 1869. He attended local schools and graduated from the University of Leipzig in 1891 and was asked to remain there as a teacher. Within a year, he received an...

Felix Hausdorff (November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function...

My Felix GLENN LIGON ON FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES. EDITED BY JULIE AULT. NEW YORK: STEIDLDANGIN, 2006. 410 PAGES. $85. IN 1996, the year Felix Gonzalez-Torres died, I made a version of his "Unfilled" (Perfect Lovers), 1987-90, by hanging two identical battery-operated clocks...

As a workaholic composer, Mendelssohn penned sublime piano trios for the ages FELIX MENDELSSOHN WAS BORN into an extraordinary German-Jewish family. At a time when Germany's Jews were barred from all professions except ragpicking and moneylending, his grandfather jMoses acquired enough education to...