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.
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ISBN
9783319023687
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Springer Nature
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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