Continuum theory : an introduction / Sam B. Nadler, Jr.

This long-needed volume, a combines reference and text, presents a mixture of classical and modern continuum theory techniques and contains easy-to-follow proofs as well as numerous examples and counterexamples. Providing many end-of-chapter exercises to augment ideas and illustrate techniques and c...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Nadler, Sam B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : M. Dekker, ©1992.
Series:Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics ; 158.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. General analysis. Examples of continua and nested intersections
  • Inverse limits of continua
  • Decompositions of continua
  • Limits of sets
  • The boundary bumping theorems
  • Existence of non-cut points
  • A general mapping theorem
  • pt. II. Special continua and maps. General theory of Peano continua
  • Graphs
  • Dendrites
  • Irreducible continua
  • Arc-like continua
  • Special types of maps.