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A User's Guide to Algebraic Topology (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
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A User's Guide to Algebraic Topology (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Series: Mathematics and Its Applications, 387
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We have tried to design this book for both instructional and
reference use, during and after a first course in algebraic
topology aimed at users rather than developers; indeed, the book
arose from such courses taught by the authors. We start gently,
with numerous pictures to illustrate the fundamental ideas and
constructions in homotopy theory that are needed in later chapters.
A certain amount of redundancy is built in for the reader's
convenience: we hope to minimize: fiipping back and forth, and we
have provided some appendices for reference. The first three are
concerned with background material in algebra, general topology,
manifolds, geometry and bundles. Another gives tables of homo topy
groups that should prove useful in computations, and the last
outlines the use of a computer algebra package for exterior
calculus. Our approach has been that whenever a construction from a
proof is needed, we have explicitly noted and referenced this. In
general, wehavenot given a proof unless it yields something useful
for computations. As always, the only way to un derstand
mathematics is to do it and use it. To encourage this, Ex denotes
either an example or an exercise. The choice is usually up to you
the reader, depending on the amount of work you wish to do;
however, some are explicitly stated as ( unanswered) questions. In
such cases, our implicit claim is that you will greatly benefit
from at least thinking about how to answer them."
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