W. Wistar Comfort
Professor of Mathematics
Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut

This is the Home Page of William Wistar Comfort II
a.k.a. W. Wistar Comfort, Wistar Comfort, Wis Comfort and W. W. Comfort

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• I was born April 19, 1933 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
• I graduated from Westtown (Quaker) Boarding School in 1950
  
• I graduated from Haverford College (Pennsylvania) in 1954
  
• I received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington (Seattle) in 1958; thesis director = Edwin Hewitt
  
• I married Mary Constance Lyon in March, 1957. We produced two children: Martha Wistar Comfort (1959) and Howard Comfort III (1961)
  
• I have held academic positions at: Harvard University, the University of Rochester, the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), and Wesleyan University. I came to Wesleyan in July, 1967.
  
• I work principally in General Topology, with a specialty in topological groups and cardinal invariants. I enjoy infinitary combinatorics and their applications to topological structures.
  
• Date of death: Not yet determined.
  
• For a "biographical interview" conducted by Neil Hindman in 1997, now available on the Topology Atlas website, click here.

CURRICULUM VITAE

COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Publications Submitted and/or Accepted for Publication, not yet Published:

137. Extremal pseudocompact Abelian groups are compact metrizable.
Co-author: Jan van Mill
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139. Dense subgroups of compact groups.
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140. Pseudocompact groups: Progress and problems.
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141. $M$-embedded subspaces of certain product spaces.
Co-authors: Ivan Gotchev and Luis Recoder-N\'u\~nez.
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142. On the supremum of the pseudocompact group topologies.
Co-author: Jan van Mill.
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143. On a question of W. W. Comfort and S. Negrepontis.
Co-authors: Ivan Gotchev and Luis Recoder-N\'u\~nez.
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