ENGLISH

Algebraic Topology

By Allen Hatcher

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521795401, 0521795400
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (2883333 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
552\552
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

This book is horrible if regarded as a mathematics book. Like previous reviewers I feel there is a total lack of clarity and rigor. Definitions are lacking, perhaps the author feels it is better to provide a "intuitive" feel for the material, than just definingg things. He fails miserably. The fact that what we are really dealing with in this subject are functors((co)homology, homotopy ) is nearly absent from the text. Instead drawings and pictures that are meant to provide "geometric" feel are supplanted.
I would state that this book attempts to teach how to compute in and use the theory than have you understand how the theory is built. It is a book for using the oven, not understanding how it works.

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