Designed as a text as well as a treatise, the first systematic account of the theory of rings of continuous functions remains the basic graduate-level book in t
Designed as a text as well as a treatise, the first systematic account of the theory of rings of continuous functions remains the basic graduate-level book in t
This book is addressed to those who know the meaning of each word in the title: none is defined in the text. The reader can estimate the knowledge required by l
The space C(X) of all continuous functions on a compact space X carries the structure of a normed vector space, an algebra and a lattice. On the one hand we stu
Among the best available reference introductions to general topology, this volume is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Inc