Algebraic Topology :A First Course - Graduate Texts in Mathematics

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Algebraic Topology

Algebraic Topology :A First Course - Graduate Texts in Mathematics

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To the Teacher. This book is designed to introduce a student to some of the important ideas of algebraic topology by emphasizing the re­ lations of these ideas with other areas of mathematics. Rather than choosing one point of view of modem topology (homotopy theory, simplicial complexes, singular theory, axiomatic homology, differ­ ential topology, etc.), we concentrate our attention on concrete prob­ lems in low dimensions, introducing only as much algebraic machin­ ery as necessary for the problems we meet. This makes it possible to see a wider variety of important features of the subject than is usual in a beginning text. The book is designed for students of mathematics or science who are not aiming to become practicing algebraic topol­ ogists-without, we hope, discouraging budding topologists. We also feel that this approach is in better harmony with the historical devel­ opment of the subject. What would we like a student to know after a first course in to­ pology (assuming we reject the answer: half of what one would like the student to know after a second course in topology)? Our answers to this have guided the choice of material, which includes: under­ standing the relation between homology and integration, first on plane domains, later on Riemann surfaces and in higher dimensions; wind­ ing numbers and degrees of mappings, fixed-point theorems; appli­ cations such as the Jordan curve theorem, invariance of domain; in­ dices of vector fields and Euler characteristics; fundamental groups
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780387943275
ISBN10 0387943277
Number Of Pages 430
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Format paperback
Edition 1st ed. 1995. Corr. 2nd printing 1997
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W. Fulton

Algebraic Topology

A First Course

Fulton has done genuine service for the mathematical community by writing a text on algebraic topology which is genuinely different from the existing texts. Each time a text such as this is published we more truly have a real choice when we pick a book for a course or for self-study. The author, who is an expert in algebraic geometry, has given us his own personal idiosyncratic vision of how the subject should be developed. AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY


W. Fulton

Algebraic Topology

A First Course

Fulton has done genuine service for the mathematical community by writing a text on algebraic topology which is genuinely different from the existing texts. Each time a text such as this is published we more truly have a real choice when we pick a book for a course or for self-study. The author, who is an expert in algebraic geometry, has given us his own personal idiosyncratic vision of how the subject should be developed. ???AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY


W. Fulton

Algebraic Topology

A First Course

Fulton has done genuine service for the mathematical community by writing a text on algebraic topology which is genuinely different from the existing texts. Each time a text such as this is published we more truly have a real choice when we pick a book for a course or for self-study. The author, who is an expert in algebraic geometry, has given us his own personal idiosyncratic vision of how the subject should be developed. a AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY

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