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Academic Year 2003/2004

Topics in Topology II: Compactness and Algebraic Structures
MATH 525 SP

This course may be repeated for credit.

COMPACTNESS AND VARIANTS. Stone-Cech compactification as: Subspace of a cube; ultrafilter space; maximal ideal space of the ring or l-group C(X,R). Boolean algebras: Stone representation; completion. Extremally and basically disconnected spaces. Rings and l-groups of extended real-valued functions (e.g., measurable mod null).

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Level: GRAD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Graded   

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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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