A Guide to Topology
A Guide to Topology
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GBPA Guide to Topology is an introduction to basic topology for graduate or advanced undergraduate students. It covers point-set topology, Moore-Smith convergence and function spaces. It treats continuity, compactness, the separation axioms, connectedness, completeness, the relative topology, the quotient topology, the product topology, and all the other fundamental ideas of the subject. The book is filled with examples and illustrations. Students studying for exams will find this book to be a concise, focused and informative resource. Professional mathematicians who need a quick review of the subject, or need a place to look up a key fact, will find this book to be a useful resource too.
- A short, sharp introduction that shows readers exactly what topology is and why it is useful
- Concludes with function spaces to acquaint students with the applications of the basic ideas and techniques of topology
- Includes table of notation and glossary to help students get to grip with the material quickly
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September 2009Hardback
9780883853467
120 pages
235 × 157 × 11 mm
0.28kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Fundamentals:
- 1.1. What is topology?
- 1.2. First definitions
- 1.3 Mappings
- 1.4. The separation axioms
- 1.5. Compactness
- 1.6. Homeomorphisms
- 1.7. Connectedness
- 1.8. Path-connectedness
- 1.9. Continua
- 1.10. Totally disconnected spaces
- 1.11. The Cantor set
- 1.12. Metric spaces
- 1.13. Metrizability
- 1.14. Baire's theorem
- 1.15. Lebesgue's lemma and Lebesgue numbers
- Part II. Advanced Properties:
- 2.1 Basis and subbasis
- 2.2. Product spaces
- 2.3. Relative topology
- 2.4. First countable and second countable
- 2.5. Compactifications
- 2.6. Quotient topologies
- 2.7. Uniformities
- 2.8. Morse theory
- 2.9. Proper mappings
- 2.10. Paracompactness
- Part III. Moore-Smith Convergence and Nets:
- 3.1. Introductory remarks
- 3.2. Nets
- Part IV. Function Spaces:
- 4.1. Preliminary ideas
- 4.2. The topology of pointwise convergence
- 4.3. The compact-open topology
- 4.4. Uniform convergence
- 4.5. Equicontinuity and the Ascoli-Arzela theorem
- 4.6. The Weierstrass approximation theorem
- Table of notation
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
