> ... I have become interested in the origin (first use and reason
> for the word chosen) of the following topological terms:
>
> open set / neighbourhood / normal space / complete space / regular space
>
I suggest starting with *Grundzuege der Mengenlehre* by F Hausdorff, and
*Topologie* by P Aleksandrov and H Hopf, and the references in those. I
think there's a translation into English of the book by Aleksandrov and
Hopf, but I don't think the Hausdorff book has been translated. Despite
the fact that Mengenlehre means theory of sets, there is a fair bit of
early topology in the book by Hausdorff. However, I doubt that he called a
Hausdorff space a Hausdorff space. :-)
Gordon Fisher gfisher@shentel.net