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020	$a9781475768480
082	$a514
099	$aOnline resource: Springer
100	$aBredon, Glen E.$d1932-2000.
245	$aTopology and Geometry$h[EBook]$cby Glen E. Bredon.
260	$aNew York, NY$bSpringer$c1993.
300	$aXXIII, 131 pages$bonline resource.
336	$atext
338	$aonline resource
440	$aGraduate Texts in Mathematics,$x0072-5285 ;$v139
505	$aI General Topology -- II Differentiable Manifolds -- III Fundamental Group -- IV Homology Theory -- V Cohomology -- VI Products and Duality -- VII Homotopy Theory -- Appendices -- App. A. The Additivity Axiom -- App. B. Background in Set Theory -- App. C. Critical Values -- App. D. Direct Limits -- App. E. Euclidean Neighborhood Retracts -- Index of Symbols.
520	$aThe golden age of mathematics-that was not the age of Euclid, it is ours. C. J. KEYSER This time of writing is the hundredth anniversary of the publication (1892) of Poincare's first note on topology, which arguably marks the beginning of the subject of algebraic, or "combinatorial," topology. There was earlier scattered work by Euler, Listing (who coined the word "topology"), Mobius and his band, Riemann, Klein, and Betti. Indeed, even as early as 1679, Leibniz indicated the desirability of creating a geometry of the topological type. The establishment of topology (or "analysis situs" as it was often called at the time) as a coherent theory, however, belongs to Poincare. Curiously, the beginning of general topology, also called "point set topology," dates fourteen years later when Frechet published the first abstract treatment of the subject in 1906. Since the beginning of time, or at least the era of Archimedes, smooth manifolds (curves, surfaces, mechanical configurations, the universe) have been a central focus in mathematics. They have always been at the core of interest in topology. After the seminal work of Milnor, Smale, and many others, in the last half of this century, the topological aspects of smooth manifolds, as distinct from the differential geometric aspects, became a subject in its own right.
538	$aOnline access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
710	$aSpringerLink (Online service)
830	$aGraduate Texts in Mathematics,$v139
856	$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6848-0