Elements of Point-Set Topology

by John D. Baum

Book Overview

Basic treatment covers preliminaries (sets, relations, etc.), topological spaces, continuous functions (mappings) and homeomorphisms, special types of topological spaces, metric spaces, more.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486668266
• ISBN13: 9780486668260
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

What you need to know

I am currently a Math Graduate Student who is primarily interested in algebra. While I own several books on algebraic topology and algebraic geometry, I was for a long time without a point set topology reference. This book tells me concisely what I need to know - and is an excellent bargain!

An unusual, and unusually good, book on topology

Most books on topology start with topology on the Rn and then introduce the finer points of topology. Baum's book starts right out with abstract point-set topology without skipping a beat. I learned general topology from this book and I'd absolutely recommend this to any student and instructor, along with Counterexamples In Topology by Steen and Seebach.