Robert Magnus was born in the UK and studied mathematics at the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. He has taught nearly all subjects associated with analysis and has published papers in the areas of bifurcation theory, catastrophe theory, analytic operator functions and nonlinear partial differential equations. Since 1977 he has lived and worked in Iceland.

- 1. Metric Spaces. - 2. Basic Theory of Metric Spaces. - 3. Completeness of the Classical Spaces. - 4. Compact Spaces. - 5. Separable Spaces. - 6. Properties of Complete Spaces. - 7. Connected Spaces. - Afterword.