It is a privilege for me to write a foreword for this unusual book.
The book is not primarily a reference work although many of the
ideas and proofs are explained more clearly here than in any other
source that I know. Nor is this a text of the customary sort. It is
rather a record of a particular course and Gordon Whyburn's special
method of teaching it. Perhaps the easiest way to describe the
course and the method is to relate my own personal experience with
a forerunner of this same course in the academic year 1937-1938. At
that time, the course was offered every other year with a following
course in algebraic topology on alternate years. There were five of
us enrolled, and on the average we knew less mathematics than is
now routinely given in a junior course in analysis. Whyburn's
purpose, as we learned, was to prepare us in minimal time for
research in the areas in which he was inter ested. His method was
remarkable."
General
Imprint: |
Springer-Verlag New York
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
1979 |
Authors: |
G Whyburn
• E Duda
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 9mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
154 |
Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4684-6264-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Mathematics >
Topology >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4684-6264-4 |
Barcode: |
9781468462647 |
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