This book is the second volume of the Handbook of the  History of General Topology. As was the case for the first  volume, the contributions contained in it concern either individual  topologists, specific schools of topology, specific periods of  development, specific topics or a combination of these.   The second volume focuses on the work of famous topologists, such as  W. Sierpinski, K. Kuratowski (both by R. Engelkind), S. Mazurkiewicz  (by R. Pol) and R.G. Bing (by M. Starbird). Furthermore, it contains  articles covering Uniform, Proximinal and Nearness Concepts in  Topology (by H.L. Bentley, H. Herrlich, M. Husek), Hausdorff  Compactifications (by R.E. Chandler, G. Faulkner), Continua Theory (by  J.J. Charatonik), Generalized Metrizable Spaces (by R.E. Hodel),  Minimal Hausdorff Spaces and Maximally Connected Spaces (by J.R.  Porter, R.M. Stephenson Jr.), Orderable Spaces (by S. Purisch),  Developable Spaces (by S.D. Shore) and The  Alexandroff-Sorgenfrey Line (by D.E. Cameron).   Together with the first volume and the forthcoming volume(s) this work  on the history of topology, in all its aspects, is unique, and  presents important views and insights into the problems and  development of topological theories and applications of topological  concepts, and into the life and work of topologists. As such it will  encourage not only further study in the history of the subject, but  also further mathematical research in the field. It is an invaluable  tool for topology researchers and topology teachers throughout the  mathematical world.

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