A Guide to Topology

Preface; Part I. Fundamentals: 1.1. What is topology?; 1.2. First definitions; 1.3 Mappings; 1.4. The separation axioms; 1.5. Compactness; 1.6. Homeomorphisms; 1.7. Connectedness; 1.8. Path-connectedness; 1.9. Continua; 1.10. Totally disconnected spaces; 1.11. The Cantor set; 1.12. Metric spaces; 1.13. Metrizability; 1.14. Baire's theorem; 1.15. Lebesgue's lemma and Lebesgue numbers; Part II. Advanced Properties: 2.1 Basis and subbasis; 2.2. Product spaces; 2.3. Relative topology; 2.4. First countable and second countable; 2.5. Compactifications; 2.6. Quotient topologies; 2.7. Uniformities; 2.8. Morse theory; 2.9. Proper mappings; 2.10. Paracompactness; Part III. Moore-Smith Convergence and Nets: 3.1. Introductory remarks; 3.2. Nets; Part IV. Function Spaces: 4.1. Preliminary ideas; 4.2. The topology of pointwise convergence; 4.3. The compact-open topology; 4.4. Uniform convergence; 4.5. Equicontinuity and the Ascoli-Arzela theorem; 4.6. The Weierstrass approximation theorem; Table of notation; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.