Topology (Second Edition)

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• Author: James R. Munkres

This introduction to topology provides separate, in-depth coverage of both general topology and algebraic topology. Includes many examples and figures. GENERAL TOPOLOGY. Set Theory and Logic. Topological Spaces and Continuous Functions. Connectedness and Compactness. Countability and Separation Axioms. The Tychonoff Theorem. Metrization Theorems and paracompactness. Complete Metric Spaces and Function Spaces. Baire Spaces and Dimension Theory. ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY. The Fundamental Group. Separation Theorems. The Seifert-van Kampen Theorem. Classification of Surfaces. Classification of Covering Spaces. Applications to Group Theory. For anyone needing a basic, thorough, introduction to general and algebraic topology and its applications.



Comments on this edition. The reader who is familiar with the first edition of this

book will find no substantial changes in the part of the book dealing with general

topology. I have confined myself largely to "fine-tuning" the text material and the

exercises. However, the final chapter of the first edition, which dealt with algebraic topology, has been substantially expanded and rewritten. It has become Part II of this book. In the years since the first edition appeared, it has become increasingly common to offer topology as a two-term course, the first devoted to general topology and the second to algebraic topology. By expanding the treatment of the latter subject, I have intended to make this revision serve the needs of such a course.