MAA Writing Awards

Conjectures and Counterexamples in Metrization Theory

by Lynn A. Steen

Year of Award: 1973

Publication Information: The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 79, 1972, pp. 113-132

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About the Author: (from The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 79, (1972)) Lynn A. Steen received his MIT Ph.D. in 1965 under Kenneth Hoffman and has been at St. Olaf College except for sabbatical leave in 1970-71 at the Inst. Mittag-Leffler, Sweden. His research in centered on topology, and he is the author with J.A. Seebach, Jr. of Counterexamples in Topology.