01378nam a22002297i 4500 230811m20001991|||a|||| |||| 001 0 eng d pbk. GCL 513.83 BHA Bhatti, Muhammad Zahid Rafiq An introduction to : Metric spaces / Muhammad Zahid Rafiq Bhatti. Third edition. Lahore : Ilmi Book House, 2000. 128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes index. Metric space topology, as the generalization to abstract spaces of the theory of sets of points on a line or in a plane, unifies many branches of classical analysis and is necessary introduction to functional analysis. Professor Copson's book, which is based on lectures given to third-year undergraduates at the University of St Andrews, provides a more leisurely treatment of metric spaces than is found in books on functional analysis, which are usually written at graduate student level. His presentation is aimed at the applications of the theory to classical algebra and analysis; in particular, the chapter on contraction mappings shows how it provides proof of many of the existence theorems in classical analysis. Mathematics ddc 0 0 ddc 0 513_830000000000000_BHA 0 1757 LPL LPL 2023-08-11 0 513.83 BHA 10627 2023-08-11 00:00:00 2023-08-11 BK 1107 1107