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A First Course in Geometric Topology and Differential Geometry

By Ethan D. Bloch

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Boston
Year
1996
ISBN
0817638407, 9780817638405
LCC
QA611 .B55 1997
Open Library ID
OL978244M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7380473 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
438\438
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

The uniqueness of this text in combining geometric topology and differential geometry lies in its unifying thread: the notion of a surface. With numerous illustrations, exercises and examples, the student comes to understand the relationship between modern axiomatic approach and geometric intuition. The text is kept at a concrete level, 'motivational' in nature, avoiding abstractions. A number of intuitively appealing definitions and theorems concerning surfaces in the topological, polyhedral, and smooth cases are presented from the geometric view, and point set topology is restricted to subsets of Euclidean spaces. The treatment of differential geometry is classical, dealing with surfaces in R3 . The material here is accessible to math majors at the junior/senior level.

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