Topology: 1978 Lecture Notes

by Robert Geroch

This book is about the branch of mathematics called topology.But its larger purpose is to illustrate how mathematics works: The interplay between intuition on the one hand and a puremathematical formulation on the other. Thus, we develop theaxioms for a topological space, formulate definitions withinthe context of those axioms and actually prove theorems fromthe axioms. But underlying all this is our intuition abouttopology. It is this intuition that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1927763177
• ISBN13: 9781927763179
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Minkowski Institute Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"