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This basic treatment, specially designed for undergraduates, covers preliminaries — sets, relations, and more — topological spaces, continuous functions — mappings — and homeomorphisms, special types of topological spaces, metric spaces, and more. The book utilizes a geometric and axiomatic approach for easier accessibility. Includes exercises and a bibliography.
Reprint of the Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs. New Jersey, 1964 edition.
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