Elements of the Topology of Plane Sets of Points

This book provides an elementary introduction to the ideas and methods of topology.

M. H. A. Newman (Author)

9780521091862, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 January 1951

228 pages
23 x 15.5 x 1.4 cm, 0.372 kg

This book provides an elementary introduction to the ideas and methods of topology by the detailed study of certain topics. There are elegant but rigorous proofs of many of the basic theorems and special attention is given to the results needed in the theory of functions.

Preface to the second edition
1. Sets
2. Closed sets and open sets in metric spaces
3. Homeomorphism and continuous mappings
4. Connection
5. Separation theorems
6. Simply- and multiply-connected plane domains
7. Homotopy properties
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematics [PB]