Introduction
1.what is point-set topology about?
2.origin and beginnings
Chapter Ⅰ fundamental concepts
1.the concept of a topological space
2.metric spaces
3.subspaces, disjoint unions and products
4.rases and subbases
5.continuous maps
6.connectedness
7.the hausdorff separation axiom
8.compactness
Chapter Ⅱ topological vector spaces
1.the notion of a topological vector space
2.finite-dimensional vector spaces
3.hilbert spaces
4.banach spaces
5.frechet spaces
6.locally convex topological vector spaces
7.a couple of examples
Chapter Ⅲ the quotient topology
1.the notion of a quotient space
2.quotients and maps
3.properties of quotient spaces
4.examples: homogeneous spaces
5.examples: orbit spaces
6.examples: collapsing a subspace to a point
7.examples: gluing topological spaces together
Chapter Ⅳ completion of metric spaces
1.the completion of a metric space
2.completion of a map
3.completion of normed spaces
Chapter Ⅴ homotopy
1.homotopic maps
2.homotopy equivalence
3.examples
4.categories
5.functors
6.what is algebraic topology?
7.homotopy--what for?
Chapter Ⅵ the two countability axioms
1.first and second countability axioms
2.infinite products
3.the role of the countability axioms
Chapter Ⅶ cw-complexes
1.simplicial complexes
2.cell decompositions
3.the notion of a cw-complex
4.subcomplexes
5.cell attaching
6.why cw-complexes are more flexible
7.yes, but...?
Chapter Ⅷ construction of continuous functions on topological spaces
1.the urysohn lemma
2.the proof of the urysohn lemma
3.the tietze extension lemma
4.partitions of unity and vector bundle sections
5.paracompactness
Chapter Ⅸ covering spaces
1.topological spaces over x
2.the concept of a covering space
3.path lifting
4.introduction to the classification of covering spaces
5.fundamental group and lifting behavior
6.the classification of covering spaces
7.covering transformations and universal cover
8.the role of covering spaces in mathematics
Chapter Ⅹ the theorem of tychonoff
1.an unlikely theorem?
2.what is it good for?
3.the proof
last Chapter
set theory (by theodor br6cker)
references
table of symbols
index
