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This book treats material concerning Metric Spaces, which is crucial for any advanced level course in analysis. Usually this is taught in the latter years of an undergraduate course. Often books on functional analysis have to be used, because there are so few books specifically on metric spaces - a gap that needs to be filled in the literature. It is a comprehensive introduction, with applications, containing a large number of worked examples and exercises for real and complex analysis, sequence spaces and the space of continuous functions. Each concept is followed by a large number of examples, some satisfying the requirements and others not, so that the concept is well understood.

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From the reviews: <p> This volume provides a complete introduction to metric space theory for undergraduates. It covers the typology of metric spaces, continuity, connectedness, compactness and product spaces a ] . The material is developed at a leisurely pace and applications of the theory are discussed throughout, making this book ideal as a classroom text for third- and fourth-year undergraduates or as a self-study resource for graduate students and researchers. (La (TM)Enseignement Mathematique, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2005) <p> This book on metric spaces was written by authors whose main field is analysis. Therefore its focus lies on those parts of the theory of metric spaces which are mainly used in (functional) analysis. a ] Altogether this is an interesting book for those who will continue their studies in analysis. (H. Brandenburg, Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006)

From the reviews: This volume provides a complete introduction to metric space theory for undergraduates. It covers the typology of metric spaces, continuity, connectedness, compactness and product spaces ... . The material is developed at a leisurely pace and applications of the theory are discussed throughout, making this book ideal as a classroom text for third- and fourth-year undergraduates or as a self-study resource for graduate students and researchers. (L'Enseignement Mathematique, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2005) This book on metric spaces was written by authors whose main field is analysis. Therefore its focus lies on those parts of the theory of metric spaces which are mainly used in (functional) analysis. ... Altogether this is an interesting book for those who will continue their studies in analysis. (H. Brandenburg, Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006) This book introduces the fundamentals of analysis in metric spaces. It's written in a very spare theorem-proof-example style; has illustrative examples and exercises; spends little time on discussion, development of intuition, or substantial applications; begins by stating that the abstract postulational method has a vital role in modern mathematics; implicitly assumes this is the way to teach mathematics. Useful resource for writing lectures? Certainly. (Donald Estep, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (2), 2007)

From the reviews: This volume provides a complete introduction to metric space theory for undergraduates. It covers the typology of metric spaces, continuity, connectedness, compactness and product spaces ! . The material is developed at a leisurely pace and applications of the theory are discussed throughout, making this book ideal as a classroom text for third- and fourth-year undergraduates or as a self-study resource for graduate students and researchers. (L'Enseignement Mathematique, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2005) This book on metric spaces was written by authors whose main field is analysis. Therefore its focus lies on those parts of the theory of metric spaces which are mainly used in (functional) analysis. ! Altogether this is an interesting book for those who will continue their studies in analysis. (H. Brandenburg, Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006) This book introduces the fundamentals of analysis in metric spaces. It's written in a very spare theorem-proof-example style; has illustrative examples and exercises; spends little time on discussion, development of intuition, or substantial applications; begins by stating that the abstract postulational method has a vital role in modern mathematics; implicitly assumes this is the way to teach mathematics. Useful resource for writing lectures? Certainly. (Donald Estep, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (2), 2007)

"From the reviews: ""This volume provides a complete introduction to metric space theory for undergraduates. It covers the typology of metric spaces, continuity, connectedness, compactness and product spaces … . The material is developed at a leisurely pace and applications of the theory are discussed throughout, making this book ideal as a classroom text for third- and fourth-year undergraduates or as a self-study resource for graduate students and researchers."" (L’Enseignement Mathematique, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2005) ""This book on metric spaces was written by authors whose main field is analysis. Therefore its focus lies on those parts of the theory of metric spaces which are mainly used in (functional) analysis. … Altogether this is an interesting book for those who will continue their studies in analysis."" (H. Brandenburg, Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 1095 (21), 2006) ""This book introduces the fundamentals of analysis in metric spaces. It’s written in a very spare theorem-proof-example style; has illustrative examples and exercises; spends little time on discussion, development of intuition, or substantial applications; begins by stating that the abstract postulational method has a vital role in modern mathematics; implicitly assumes this is the way to teach mathematics. Useful resource for writing lectures? Certainly."" (Donald Estep, SIAM Review, Vol. 49 (2), 2007)"

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