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 this area. 1960 edition.

This book contains papers on algebra, functional analysis, and general topology, with a strong interaction with set theoretic axioms and involvement with category theory, presented in the special session on Rings of Continuous Functions held in 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

This book contains papers on algebra, functional analysis, and general topology, with a strong interaction with set theoretic axioms and involvement with category theory, presented in the special session on Rings of Continuous Functions held in 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Among the best available reference introductions to general topology, this volume is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Includes historical notes and over 340 detailed exercises. 1970 edition. Includes 27 figures.