Schaum's Outline of General Topology [Paperback]

Seymour Lipschutz (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0070379882 | ISBN-13: 978-0070379886 | Publication Date: June 1, 1968 | Edition: 1

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 1, 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070379882
• ISBN-13: 978-0070379886
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #429,001 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you are a good researcher, this is a good resource!, July 22, 2002

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This review is from: Schaum's Outline of General Topology (Paperback)

If you are taking an introductory Topology course, I recommend using this book. It is a little old, and some of the problems are not solved, but it will offer you an advantage when using your class text. You should use Lipschutz's book together with REA's Topology Problem Solver to give you full study advantage when taking on this most difficult subject. With some moderate study, you should do better on your assignements!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for college-level math students..., January 8, 2005

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I wish I had known about this summary when I was taking my Fundamental Concepts in Math course at the university. I would have done a lot better! I agree with the previous reviewer about adding REA's Problem Solver book for a complete set.

The topics covered include: (1) Sets and relations, (2) Functions, (3) Cardinality and Order, (4) Topology of the line and plane, (5) Topological Spaces, (6) Bases and Subbases [sic], (7) Continuity and topological equivalence, (7) Metric and normed spaces, (8)Countability, (10) Separation axioms, (11) Compactness, (12) Product spaces, (13) Connectedness, (14) Complete metric spaces, and (15) Function spaces. There is an appendix about Properties of real numbers.

This is a technical book and not for a casual reader. I believe this will be difficult for a teach-yourself-to-know reader, unless the reader has considerable math experience.

Another book that I found helpful in Fundamental Concepts (not simply Topology) was Courant et al., What is mathematics? 2nd ed.

My Fundamental Concepts professor taught the course with only lecture notes, and I was completely lost. Had I had this outline, I think I would have done better, because this Outline has a number of solved problems and exercises.

Good luck.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, February 20, 2009

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Delmer Reed (Costa Mesa, CA) - See all my reviews
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This product takes the down and dirty information of Point-set topology and feeds it to the sophomore college student. Its a good read for those out of their first year of Calculus and really want to prepare or know what's up. Its used as a supplemental text for my Honors Course, and it really helped me get used to the topological definitions and notations. Filled with solutions and worked out problems it builds essential skills required and expected of the Junior level student. It's great for engineering majors, so they won't freak out when they have to deal with upper level math. I give it a very strong recommendation. But, just remember its higher level material, so don't expect it to go down like a Calculus course; it needs time for mental percolation.