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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300153103321

Autore

Conway John B

Titolo

A Course in Point Set Topology / / by John B. Conway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-02368-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 142 p.)

Collana

Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, , 0172-6056

Disciplina

514

Soggetti

Topology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Metric Spaces -- Topological Spaces -- Continuous Real-Valued Functions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Terms -- Symbols.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook in point set topology is aimed at an upper-undergraduate audience. Its gentle pace will be useful to students who are still learning to write proofs. Prerequisites include calculus and at least one semester of analysis, where the student has been properly exposed to the ideas of basic set theory such as subsets, unions, intersections, and functions, as well as convergence and other topological notions in the real line. Appendices are included to bridge the gap between this new material and material found in an analysis course. Metric spaces are one of the more prevalent topological spaces used in other areas and are therefore introduced in the first chapter and emphasized throughout the text. This also conforms to the approach of the book to start with the particular and work toward the more general. Chapter 2 defines and develops abstract topological spaces, with metric spaces as the source of inspiration, and with a focus on Hausdorff spaces. The final chapter concentrates on continuous real-valued functions, culminating in a development of paracompact spaces.