Overview
This should be a revelation for mathematics undergraduates. Having evolved from Runde's notes for an introductory topology course at the University of Alberta, this essential text provides a concise introduction to set-theoretic topology, as well as some algebraic topology. It is accessible to undergraduates from the second year on, and even beginning graduate students can benefit from some sections. The well-chosen selection of examples is accessible to students who have a background in calculus and elementary algebra, but not necessarily in real or complex analysis. In places, Runde's text treats its material differently to other books on the subject, providing a fresh perspective. For example, Baire's theorem is derived from Bourbaki's Mittag-Leffler theorem; nets are used extensively, in particular for an intuitive proof of Tychonoff's theorem; and a short and elegant, but little known proof for the Stone-Weierstrass theorem is given.
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- ISBN-13: 9780387257907
- ISBN-10: 038725790X
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: July 2005
- Dimensions: 9.28 x 6.1 x 0.37 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 177
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