Introduction To Topology And Modern Analysis About The Author GEORGE F. SIMMONS has academic degree from the CAlifornia Institute of Technology, the university of chicago, and Yale University. He taught at several colleges and universities before joining the faculty of Colorado college in 1962, where he is a professor of mathematics. He is also the author of introduction to topology and Modern Analysis, Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell and calculus with Analytic Geometry. Table Of Contents • PART I: TOPOLOGY • Chapter 1. Sets and Functions Chapter 2. Metrics Spaces Chapter 3. Topological Spaces • Chapter 4. Compactness Chapter 5. Separation Chapter 6. Connectedness Chapter 7. • Approximation • PART II: OPERATORS • Chapter 8. Algebraic Systems Chapter 9. Banach Spaces Chapter 10. Hilbert Spaces • Chapter 11. Finite-Dimensional Spectral Theory • PART III: ALGEBRAS OF OPERATORS • Chapter 12. General Preliminaries on Banach Algebras Chapter 13. The Structure of • Commutative Banach Algebras Chapter 14. Some Special Commutive Banch Algebras • Appendices