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An Illustrated Introduction to Topology and Homotopy explores the beauty of topology and homotopy theory in a direct and engaging manner while illustrating the power of the theory through many, often surprising, applications. This self-contained book takes a visual and rigorous approach that incorporates both extensive illustrations and full proofs. The first part of the text covers basic topology, ranging from metric spaces and the axioms of topology through subspaces, product spaces, connectedness, compactness, and separation axioms to Urysohn’s lemma, Tietze’s theorems, and Stone-Čech compactification. Focusing on homotopy, the second part starts with the notions of ambient isotopy, homotopy, and the fundamental group. The book then covers basic combinatorial group theory, the Seifert-van Kampen theorem, knots, and low-dimensional manifolds. The last three chapters discuss the theory of covering spaces, the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, and applications in group theory, including various subgroup theorems. Requiring only some familiarity with group theory, the text includes a large number of figures as well as various examples that show how the theory can be applied. Each section starts with brief historical notes that trace the growth of the subject and ends with a set of exercises.

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Author:   Sasho Kalajdzievski (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Chapman & Hall/CRC
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.056kg
ISBN:  

9781439848159

ISBN 10:   1439848157
Pages:   488
Publication Date:   24 March 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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... reflects interesting aspects and will find its readers. -Zentralblatt MATH, 1323 ... an ideal college or university textbook and an invaluable addition to academic library mathematical studies reference collections. -Library Bookwatch, May 2015

... an ideal college or university textbook and an invaluable addition to academic library mathematical studies reference collections. -Library Bookwatch, May 2015

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