An illustrated introduction to topology and homotopy /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Sasho Kalajdzievski, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 469 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
26 cm
GENERAL NOTES
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"A Chapman & Hall book."
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"Version date: 20141014"--Title page verso
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-457) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Sets, numbers, and cardinals -- Metric spaces: definition, examples, and basics -- Topological spaces: definition and examples -- Subspaces, quotient spaces, manifolds, and CW-complexes -- Products of spaces -- Connected spaces and path connected spaces -- Compactness and related matters -- Separation properties -- Urysohn, Tietze, and Stone-Čech -- Isotopy and homotopy -- The fundamental group of a circle and applications -- Combinatorial group theory -- Seifert-van Kampen theorem and applications -- On classifying manifolds and related topics -- Covering spaces, part 1 -- Covering spaces, part 2 -- Applications in group theory
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USERS/INTENDED AUDIENCE NOTE
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"The material covered in this book is on the fuzzy boundary between the undergraduate and the graduate level."--Page xi