It covers the topology of metric spaces, continuity, connectedness, compactness and product spaces, and includes results such as the tietzeurysohn extension theorem, picards theorem on ordinary differential equations, and the set of discontinuities of the pointwise limit of a sequence of continuous functions. Metric space download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. In this general case, moreover, the distance is normally quite expensive to compute, so the general goal is to reduce the number of distance evaluations. An embedding is called distancepreserving or isometric if for all x,y. Moreover the concepts of metric subspace, metric superspace, isometry i. Ais a family of sets in cindexed by some index set a,then a o c. Metric spaces occur naturally in many parts of mathematics, including geometry, fractal geometry, topology, functional analysis and number theory. Course id 020754 metric spaces math 20122 credit rating 10 unit coordinator. Chapter 9 the topology of metric spaces uci mathematics. Then d is a metric on r2, called the euclidean, or. The metric dimension of \x,d\ is the smallest integer \k\ such that there is a set \a\ of cardinality \k\ that resolves \x\. Searching in metric spaces 275 information is the distance among objects. Summer 2007 john douglas moore our goal of these notes is to explain a few facts regarding metric spaces not included in the.
This book offers a unique approach to the subject which gives readers the advantage of a new perspective familiar from the analysis of a real line. Here we provide some basic results for general metric spaces. The typical distance used is the euclidean distance, defined as. This book offers a unique approach to the subject which gives readers the advantage of a new perspective on ideas. There are many ways to make new metric spaces from old. Searcoid, metric spaces, springer undergraduate mathematics series.
Introduction let x be an arbitrary set, which could consist of vectors in rn, functions, sequences, matrices, etc. This book offers a unique approach to the subject which gives readers the advantage of a new perspective on ideas familiar from the analysis of a real line. Searcoid, metric spaces, springer undergraduate mathematics series, 2006. Pdf this chapter will introduce the reader to the concept of metrics a. Rather than passing quickly from the definition of a metric to the more abstract concepts of convergence and continuity, the author takes the concrete notion of distance as far as possible, illustrating. Rather than passing quickly from the definition of a metric to the. I have put together for you in this book an introductionalbeit a fairly thorough introductionto metrics and metric spaces.
Often, if the metric dis clear from context, we will simply denote the metric space x. Paper 2, section i 4e metric and topological spaces. The following standard lemma is often useful, and makes explicit a bit of intuition. The metric dimension of metric spaces springerlink. However, note that while metric spaces play an important role in real analysis, the study of metric spaces is by no means the same thing as real analysis. A metric space is a set xtogether with a metric don it, and we will use the notation x. Much is known about the metric dimension when \x\ is the vertex set of a graph, but very little seems to be known for a general metric space. The analogues of open intervals in general metric spaces are the following. The above two nonstandard metric spaces show that \distance in this setting does not mean the usual notion of distance, but rather the \distance as determined by the.
The abstract concepts of metric ces are often perceived as difficult. This volume provides a complete introduction to metric space theory for undergraduates. Informally, 3 and 4 say, respectively, that cis closed under. Nearly all the concepts we discuss for metric spaces are natural generalizations of the corresponding concepts for r with this absolutevalue metric. Math 3210 metric spaces university of leeds, school of mathematics november 29, 2017 syllabus. Searcoid, 9781846283697, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Note that embeddings are a generic term for any map from a metric into another. As for the box metric, the taxicab metric can be generalized to rnfor any n. You have met or you will meet the concept of a normed vector space both in algebra and analysis courses. Kreider, an introduction to linear analysis, addisonwesley. The aim is to give a very streamlined development of a course in metric space topology emphasizing only the most useful concepts, concrete spaces and geometric ideas. Metricandtopologicalspaces university of cambridge. Rather than passing quickly from the definition of a metric to the more abstract concepts of convergence and. The abstract concepts of metric spaces are often perceived as difficult.
A sequence x n in x is called a cauchy sequence if for any. Metric spaces are first countable since one can use balls with rational radius as a neighborhood base. Real innerproduct spaces, orthonormal sequences, perpendicular distance to a. To encourage the geometric thinking, i have chosen large number of examples which allow us to draw pictures and develop our intuition and draw conclusions, generate ideas for proofs. It helps to have a unifying framework for discussing both random variables and stochastic processes, as well as their convergence, and such a framework is provided by metric spaces. U nofthem, the cartesian product of u with itself n times. Metric spaces springer undergraduate mathematics series. Once again, to prove that this is a metric, one needs to check the three axioms. The book goes on to provide a thorough exposition of all the standard necessary results of the theory and, in addition, includes selected topics not normally found in introductory books, such as.
In contrast, the operations in vector spaces tend to be simple and hence the goal is mainly to reduce io. What topological spaces can do that metric spaces cannot. Xthe number dx,y gives us the distance between them. Buy metric spaces springer undergraduate mathematics series 2007 by micheal o searcoid isbn. A metric space is complete if every cauchy sequence has a limit. Note that iff if then so thus on the other hand, let. Springer undergraduate mathematics series advisory board m.