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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 and Functional Analysis . He defined and studied Partially Ordered Set s, Hausdorff Space s, and the Hausdorff Dimension , proved the Hausdorff Maximality Theorem , solved what is now called the Hausdorff Moment Problem , and published philosophical and literary works under the pseudonym "Paul Mongré". Hausdorff studied in Leipzig and taught mathematics there until 1910 , when he became professor of mathematics in Bonn . He was professor in Greifswald from 1913 to 1921 . When the Nazis came to power, Hausdorff, who was Jew ish, felt that as a respected university professor he would be spared from persecution. However, his abstract mathematics was denounced as "Jewish", useless, and "un-German" and he lost his position in 1935 . When in 1942 he could no longer avoid being sent to a concentration camp, Hausdorff committed Suicide together with his wife and sister-in-law on the 26th of January. IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS EXTERNAL LINKS
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