Monotone Normality
by
Mary Ellen Rudin
University of Wisconsin - Madison

Monotonically normal spaces are strongly pathology killing. Although the definition seems trivial and the property usually quite hard to take advantage of, in fact spaces having this property are very powerfully and interestingly restricted. I will try to survey some of the more important properties of these spaces, especially those that have facinated me.

Date received: June 5, 2000