'At the end of every chapter some exercises, problems and notes are gathered which could be very useful for understanding the theory and for future research on this subject.' George Ciprian Modoi, MathSciNet
Introduction; 1. Topological rings and modules and their completions; 2. Inverse limits; 3. The idea of slenderness; 4. Objects of type ∏ / \coprod; 5. Concrete examples. Slender rings; 6. More examples of slender objects; Appendix. Ordered sets and measurable cardinals; References; Notation index; Name Index; Subject index.