Features & Benefits
- Intended as a first text in topology
- Accessible to readers with at least three semesters of a calculus and analytic geometry sequence
- Superb coverage of fundamentals of metric spaces, topologies, convergence, compactness, connectedness, homotopy theory, and other essentials
- Added perspective on abstract topological notions developed from classical mathematics
- Second edition includes numerous exercises and section on paracompactness and complete regularity
- Extended appendix on infinite products and a proof of the Tychonoff theorem