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Let me start this chapter with a simple why-question: Why general topology? What is the main problem it wishes to solve? The answer is deceivingly simple: general topology aims at analyzing and describing topological spaces.
‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’
‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.’
‘I don’t much care where -’
‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.’
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Patrascu, AT. (2017). Elements of General Topology. In: The Universal Coefficient Theorem and Quantum Field Theory. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46143-4_2
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