| #2087864 in Books | 2001-03-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.44 x6.14l,.80 | File type: PDF | 142 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A fun, pretty little book with many illustrations|By Pat|The material covered in this book is rather outdated -- the first two-thirds of the book focuses on the topology of curves and surfaces, which people studied in the 19th century. Then in the last third, it tries to cover as much early twentieth-century topology as possible, with mixed results. On the other hand, 19th cent|||From the reviews: |"An introduction to the topology of curves and surfaces, homotopy and homology with an emphasis on concepts and motivation rather than on theorems and proofs. Accessible to non-mathematicians. Includes a section on topology in physics. Many
Topology is a relatively young and very important branch of mathematics, which studies the properties of objects that are preserved through deformations, twistings, and stretchings. This book deals with the topology of curves and surfaces as well as with the fundamental concepts of homotopy and homology, and does this in a lively and well-motivated way. This book is well suited for readers who are interested in finding out what topology is all about.
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