Topology and Geometry

Download or read book Topology and Geometry written by Glen E. Bredon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introductory course in algebraic topology. Starting with general topology, it discusses differentiable manifolds, cohomology, products and duality, the fundamental group, homology theory, and homotopy theory. From the reviews: "An interesting and original graduate text in topology and geometry...a good lecturer can use this text to create a fine course....A beginning graduate student can use this text to learn a great deal of mathematics."—-MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS