This is a wonderfully intellectual, semi-historical approach to classical topology. Chapter 0 gets some fundamentals out of the way. Chapter 1 is very intriguing and contains lots of ideas. First we are given a taste of the Riemann surfaces of complex analysis. These are complemented by the nonorie
Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory
โ Scribed by John Stillwell
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 350
- Series
- Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 72
- Edition
- 2nd
- Category
- Library
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