This book is based on a course taught to an audience of undergraduate and graduate students at Oxford, and can be viewed as a bridge between the study of metric

Coarse geometry is the study of spaces (particularly metric spaces) from a 'large scale' point of view, so that two spaces that look the same from a great dista

The principal aim of this book is to introduce topology and its many applications viewed within a framework that includes a consideration of compactness, comple

Preparing students for further study of both the classical works and current research, this is an accessible text for students who have had a course in real and

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