METRIC SPACES, begins with a chapter on preliminaries, discussing basic concepts and results followed by chapters on Introductory concepts, completeness continuous functions, compactness, connectedness and fixed point theorems and their applications. Two appendices have been given on Cantor Set and Limits in Metric Spaces. Encouraged by the response to the second edition the authors have thoroughly revised this edition which is intended to serve as a textbook.

• • Examples added at appropriate places • Proofs of theorems thoroughly revised.

Preface to the Second Edition / Preface to the First Edition / List of Symbols / Scheme of Numbering/Cross-Referencing / Preliminaries / Introductory Concepts / Completeness / Continuous Functions / Compactness / Connectedness / Fixed Point Theorems and their Applications / Appendices / Bibliography / Index.

Honours and Postgraduate Students