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Lecture Notes on Elementary Topology and Geometry

Lecture Notes on Elementary Topology and Geometry

by J.A. Thorpe and I.M. Singer
Hardback
Publication Date: 10/12/1976

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At the present time, the average undergraduate mathematics major finds mathematics heavily compartmentalized. After the calculus, he takes a course in analysis and a course in algebra. Depending upon his interests (or those of his department), he takes courses in special topics. Ifhe is exposed to topology, it is usually straightforward point set topology; if he is exposed to geom etry, it is usually classical differential geometry. The exciting revelations that there is some unity in mathematics, that fields overlap, that techniques of one field have applications in another, are denied the undergraduate. He must wait until he is well into graduate work to see interconnections, presumably because earlier he doesn't know enough. These notes are an attempt to break up this compartmentalization, at least in topology-geometry. What the student has learned in algebra and advanced calculus are used to prove some fairly deep results relating geometry, topol ogy, and group theory. (De Rham's theorem, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for surfaces, the functorial relation of fundamental group to covering space, and surfaces of constant curvature as homogeneous spaces are the most note worthy examples.) In the first two chapters the bare essentials of elementary point set topology are set forth with some hint ofthe subject's application to functional analysis.
ISBN:
9780387902029
9780387902029
Category:
Geometry
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
10-12-1976
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
232
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x14mm
Weight:
1.15kg

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