Overview
- Features undergraduate material in metric spaces, abstract topological spaces, and continuous real-valued functions
- Develops the material from the more particular to the general concepts
- Contains many exercises of varying difficulty
- Includes interesting historical notes
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics (UTM)
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“This book by Conway (George Washington Univ.) provides the three stepping-stones for leading a successful practitioner of calculus to proficiency in point set topology, with one chapter devoted to each. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and beginning graduate students.” (F. E. J. Linton, Choice, Vol. 51 (11), July, 2014)
“The book under review is, as the title makes clear, an introduction to point set topology … . Conway wrote this book to give students ‘a set of tools’, discussing ‘material [that] is used in almost every part of mathematics.’ … this is a well-written book that I enjoyed reading. Assuming that your idea of what to teach in a first-semester course in topology is in line with the author’s, this book would make an excellent text for such a course.” (Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews, January, 2014)
“The author is a specialist in analysis with a life long love for point set topology. … There is a relatively large collection of well investigated biographies which appear as footnotes, which are interesting and helpful, espacially for young readers. … The book will be a success, a good introduction to point set topology and a valuable entrance … .” (Friedrich Wilhelm Bauer, zbMATH, Vol. 1284, 2014)
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Book Title: A Course in Point Set Topology
Authors: John B. Conway
Series Title: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02368-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02367-0Published: 15 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34834-6Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02368-7Published: 04 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0172-6056
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5604
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 142
Topics: Topology