Topology with Applications: Topological Spaces Via Near and Far - Hardcover

by Somashekhar A. Naimpally (Author), James F. Peters (Author)

The principal aim of this book is to introduce topology and its many applications viewed within a framework that includes a consideration of compactness, completeness, continuity, filters, function spaces, grills, clusters and bunches, hyperspace topologies, initial and final structures, metric spaces, metrization, nets, proximal continuity, proximity spaces, separation axioms, and uniform spaces.This book provides a complete framework for the study of topology with a variety of applications in science and engineering that include camouflage filters, classification, digital image processing, forgery detection, Hausdorff raster spaces, image analysis, microscopy, paleontology, pattern recognition, population dynamics, stem cell biology, topological psychology, and visual merchandising.It is the first complete presentation on topology with applications considered in the context of proximity spaces, and the nearness and remoteness of sets of objects. A novel feature throughout this book is the use of near and far, discovered by F Riesz over 100 years ago. In addition, it is the first time that this form of topology is presented in the context of a number of new applications.

Front Jacket

This book introduces topology and its many applications viewed within a framework that considers metric spaces, continuity, open and closed sets, metric nearness, compactness and completeness.

It encompases a complete framework for the study of topology with a variety of applications in science and engineering that include digital image processing, principle component analysis and uniform spaces, stem cell biology, visual merchandising, handwriting forgery detection, paleontology, population dynamics, and medical imaging.

It is the first complete presentation on topology with applications considered in the context of proximity spaces, and the nearness and remoteness of sets of objects.