Re: looking for Frιchet's 1906 Ph.D. dissertation introducing metric spaces

"Dave L. Renfro" <renfr1dl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well, as anyone who has been following my posts since 1999 will
know, this isn't something you need to convince me about!
I've gone to great lengths to archive in sci.math quite
a bit of "mathematical history". Often, I'll just cite the
relevant papers, but even then I try to give as complete
bibliographic information as I can (complete journal titles,
full author names, MR & Zbl & JFM citation codes, etc.).
[snip]

That's why you've earned the well-deserved title of "Moveable
Mathematics Encyclopedia of sci.math".

It should also be noted for the benefit of those who are relatively
new to sci.math that Dave has *greatly* aided some of us individually
by providing references for research material which would otherwise be
very difficult to obtain [*] or cause the author to expend tremendous
amounts of time looking for it.

Because it is reasonable to assume that Dave has performed similar
service to other mathematicians and because his interests are very
diverse, I'd easily nominate him as one of the top most valuable
contributors of sci.math.

[*] for example, most of the tetration references which I've used have
come from Dave and I needed them at a time when I didn't have access
to JSTOR or to the corresponding journals themselves.

Dave L. Renfro
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