Award: Chauvenet Prize

Year of Award: 1938

Publication Information: Bulletin of the AMS, vol. 42 (1936), pp. 49-73

Summary: A discussion of the theorems grouped around the notion of a cut point of a continuum and the key which this notion gives to the structure of a continuum through its decomposition into cyclic elements.

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About the Author: G.T. Whyburn was at the University of Virginia at the time of publication.