On paracompactness

This thesis is an investigation of the concept of paracompactness. It presents the history of paracompactness, analyzes this concept from several diverse points of view and tries to establish the relationship between these different views. The starting point is the work of Tukey [40]. The important problem of the metrization of topological spaces is presented as an application of the concept of paracompactness.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Mathematics

Department dc:contributor.department

Mathematics

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1982

Author dc:creator

• Ntantu, Ibula

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/87136

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/87136