Set theoretic topology
Banach algebrasFourier-Stieltjes transformationsHaar integralHaar measureintegration on locally compact topological groups
Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to topological groups (22-01) Analytic algebras and generalizations, preparation theorems (32B05) Measures on groups and semigroups, etc. (43A05) General theory of topological algebras (46H05) General theory of commutative topological algebras (46J05) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to general topology (54-01) History of general topology (54-03)
This book under review is the third, revised and enlarged edition of a German textbook on general topology. Written by a group of eight authors, the first edition of this standard text had been published in 1973 (Zbl 0262.54001). Whereas the second edition (Zbl 0431.54001) from 1979 provided only minor changes and improvements, the present, third edition comes with a really substantial revision and enhancement. It is not only that the layout in \TeX{} gives now a much better optical legibility, but is rather the rearrangement of the material, effected by grown teaching experience over the past twenty years, and the enlargement of the text by additional chapters on topics in the theory of topological groups that makes this proven textbook even more valuable and important. It is fair to say that the book has been almost completely rewritten, very much so to its great advantage, whereby the customary features of the previous edition have been preserved. The new text consists of twenty-one chapters which lead the reader from the fundamental concepts of general topology (Chapter 1 to Chapter 13) to the topological aspects of function spaces, Banach algebras, and the theory of integration (Chapter 14 to Chapter 18), and then over to the added topics in the advanced theory of topological groups. Chapter 19 discusses invariant integration on locally compact topological groups, including the Haar measure, the Haar integral, the modular function of a group, and the group algebra of integrable functions. Chapter 20 provides some basic material from duality theory for topological groups. This encompasses character groups of topological groups, Fourier-Stieltjes transformations, dual groups, and Pontryagin's duality theorem for locally compact abelian topological groups. The concluding Chapter 21 gives some historical remarks on the development of the respective topological aspects covered by this textbook. Each chapter comes with a set of problems and exercises, the number of which has also been increased in this new edition. The prominent characteristics of this traditional German textbook on general topology and its applications in analysis are numerous and multifarious, ranging from comprehensiveness, maximum rigor, spectral breadth, mathematical depth, and intramathematical relatedness up to beautiful clarity of the exposition, methodological elegance, and masterly skill with regard to the arrangement of the vast material covered by the text as a whole. This third, revised and enlarged edition of ``The Querenburg should be very welcome to the mathematical community, despite the fact that there is still only the German version of it. With six additional sections (Chapter 16 to Chapter 21) in this new edition, and with all the various improvements compared to the original version of the book, it has become much more than just one of the countless excellent textbooks on general topology (only). Rather than that, this new edition should be regarded as a far-reaching introduction to ``general topology and its applications in advanced analysis. By the way, the high degree of self-containedness of this book has been maintained throughout, also in regard of the new material included.
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