Introduction to Topology

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Cover Title page Preface ONE METRIC SPACES 1. Open and closed sets 2. Completeness 3. The realline 4. Products of metric spaces 5. Compactness 6. Continuous functions 7. Normed linear spaces 8. The contraction principle 9. The Frechet derivative TWO TOPOLOGICAL SPACES 1. Topological spaces 2. Subspaces 3. Continuous functions 4. Base for a topology 5. Separation axioms 6. Compactness 7. Locally compact spaces 8. Connectedness 9. Path connectedness 10. Finite product spaces 11. Set theory and Zorn's lemma 12. Infinite product spaces 13. Quotient spaces THREE HOMOTOPY THEORY 1. Groups 2. Homotopic paths 3. The fundamental group 4. Induced homomorphisms 5. Covering spaces 6. Some applications of the index 7. Homotopic maps 8. Maps into the punctured plane 9. Vector fields 10. The Jordan Curve Theorem FOUR HIGHER DIMENSIONAL HOMOTOPY 1. Higher homotopy groups 2. Noncontractibility of S^n 3. Simplexes and barycentric subdivision 4. Approximation by piecewise linear maps 5. Degrees of maps BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF NOTATIONS SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED EXERCISES INDEX