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          Moore spent the year as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, then two years as an instructor at Princeton University.!

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          Born
          14 November 1882
          Dallas, Texas, USA
          Died
          4 October 1974
          Austin, Texas, USA
          Summary
          Robert Lee Moore was an American mathematician, known for his work in general topology and the "Moore method" of teaching university mathematics.

          Biography

          Robert Lee Moore's father, Charles Jonathan Moore, owned a hardware store in Dallas.

          Originally from Connecticut, Charles had moved to the south of the United States during the civil war to fight on the side of the South. Robert Lee Moore's mother was Louisa Ann Moore and she did not need to change her name on marrying Charles since her maiden name was also Moore.

          Moore taught at the University Texas-Austin until he was 86 years old, and he wished to carry on teaching but the University authorities forced him to retire.

        1. An example of that spirit is engendered in a note written to him by one of his students, John Mohat, who saw a passage in a work of fiction that he felt summed.
        2. Moore spent the year as an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, then two years as an instructor at Princeton University.
        3. Moore was the fifth of the six children of Charles Jonathan and Louisa Ann (Moore) Moore.
        4. Birth control, abortions, genetic screening, and engineering, are all examples of modern eugenics.

          5. Charles and Louisa had six children, with Robert being the second youngest in the family. Robert received a good education at a private high school in Dallas, and before he entered university he had learnt university level calculus by studying the university textbooks.



          He entered the University of Texas in 1898 and there he took courses by Halst