General Topology

J. Dixmier (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

141 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2823-8 (ISBN)

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This book is a course in general topology, intended for students in the first year of the second cycle (in other words, students in their third univer sity year). The course was taught during the first semester of the 1979-80 academic year (three hours a week of lecture, four hours a week of guided work). Topology is the study of the notions of limit and continuity and thus is, in principle, very ancient. However, we shall limit ourselves to the origins of the theory since the nineteenth century. One of the sources of topology is the effort to clarify the theory of real-valued functions of a real variable: uniform continuity, uniform convergence, equicontinuity, Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem (this work is historically inseparable from the attempts to define with precision what the real numbers are). Cauchy was one of the pioneers in this direction, but the errors that slip into his work prove how hard it was to isolate the right concepts. Cantor came along a bit later; his researches into trigonometric series led him to study in detail sets of points of R (whence the concepts of open set and closed set in R, which in his work are intermingled with much subtler concepts). The foregoing alone does not justify the very general framework in which this course is set. The fact is that the concepts mentioned above have shown themselves to be useful for objects other than the real numbers.

I Topological Spaces.- II Limits. Continuity.- III Constructions of Topological Spaces.- IV Compact Spaces.- V Metric Spaces.- VI Limits of Functions.- VII Numerical Functions.- VIII Normed Spaces.- IX Infinite Sums.- X Connected Spaces.- Exercises.- Index of Notations.- Index of Terminology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Übersetzer	S. K. Berberian
Zusatzinfo	X, 141 p.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
ISBN-10	1-4419-2823-5 / 1441928235
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-2823-8 / 9781441928238
Zustand	Neuware