Synopses & Reviews
A fresh approach to introductory topology, this volume explains nontrivial applications of metric space topology to analysis, clearly establishing their relationship. Also, topics from elementary algebraic topology focus on concrete results with minimal algebraic formalism. The first two chapters consider metric space and point-set topology; the second two, algebraic topological material. 1983 edition. Solutions to Selected Exercises. List of Notations. Index. 51 illustrations.
Synopsis
One of the most important milestones in mathematics in the twentieth century was the development of topology as an independent field of study and the subsequent systematic application of topological ideas to other fields of mathematics.
While there are many other works on introductory topology, this volume employs a methodology somewhat different from other texts. Metric space and point-set topology material is treated in the first two chapters; algebraic topological material in the remaining two. The authors lead readers through a number of nontrivial applications of metric space topology to analysis, clearly establishing the relevance of topology to analysis. Second, the treatment of topics from elementary algebraic topology concentrates on results with concrete geometric meaning and presents relatively little algebraic formalism; at the same time, this treatment provides proof of some highly nontrivial results. By presenting homotopy theory without considering homology theory, important applications become immediately evident without the necessity of a large formal program.
Prerequisites are familiarity with real numbers and some basic set theory. Carefully chosen exercises are integrated into the text (the authors have provided solutions to selected exercises for the Dover edition), while a list of notations and bibliographical references appear at the end of the book.
Synopsis
Fresh approach explains nontrivial applications of metric space topology to analysis; topics from elementary algebraic topology focus on concrete results with minimal formalism. First two chapters: metric space, point-set topology; second two, algebraic topology. 1983 edition. Solutions to Selected Exercises. 51 illus.
Synopsis
This volume explains nontrivial applications of metric space topology to analysis, clearly establishing their relationship. Also, topics from elementary algebraic topology focus on concrete results with minimal algebraic formalism. Two chapters consider metric space and point-set topology; the other 2 chapters discuss algebraic topological material. Includes exercises, selected answers, and 51 illustrations. 1983 edition.
Synopsis
This text explains nontrivial applications of metric space topology to analysis. Covers metric space, point-set topology, and algebraic topology. Includes exercises, selected answers, and 51 illustrations. 1983 edition.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 192) and index.
Table of Contents
ONE METRIC SPACES
1 Open and closed sets
2 Completeness
3 The real line
4 Products of metric spaces
5 Compactness
6 Continuous functions
7 Normed linear spaces
8 The contraction principle
9 The Frechet derivative
TWO TOPOLOGICAL SPACES
1 Topological spaces
2 Subspaces
3 Continuous functions
4 Base for a topology
5 Separation axioms
6 Compactness
7 Locally compact spaces
8 Connectedness
9 Path connectedness
10 Finite product spaces
11 Set theory and Zorn's lemma
12 Infinite product spaces
13 Quotient spaces
THREE HOMOTOPY THEORY
1 Groups
2 Homotopic paths
3 The fundamental group
4 Induced homomorphisms
5 Covering spaces
6 Some applications of the index
7 Homotopic maps
8 Maps into the punctured plane
9 Vector fields
10 The Jordan Curve Theorem
FOUR HIGHER DIMENSIONAL HOMOTOPY
1 Higher homotopy groups
2 Noncontractibility of Sn
3 Simplexes and barycentric subdivision
4 Approximation by piecewise linear maps
5 Degrees of maps
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF NOTATIONS
SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED EXERCISES
INDEX