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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lot of very good essays,
By Colin McLarty (Chardon, OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of Topology (Hardcover)
This book collects 40 essays on various themes, events, and personalities in the history of topology. I have browsed half of them and carefully read 6 or 8. Plus I have used the book as a reference, and so gained isolated facts from many of the essays.
The essays assume various amounts of background, proportionate to their subjects. In generally they are very clear and if you have any knowledge at all of a topic you can read an essay on it here at least well enough to decide if you want to work harder on it. The book concentrates more on manifolds, fixed point theorems, algebraic topology, and homological algebra, than on issues in general or point set topology. It covers Poincare, Brouwer, Weyl, and gets up to derived categories. It could not possibly cover everything in that range. For one, Lefschetz is mentioned often but he could well have deserved a whole article on himself. Or there could have been an article on the Princeton school. But incomplete we must all resign ourselves to be. The book is a huge amount of information, very well organized and presented.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Absolutely Brilliant,
By A Customer
This review is from: History of Topology (Hardcover)
A sublime account of the history of topology from it's earliest incarnation as analysis situs to contemporary research.No home should be without one. |
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History of Topology by I. M. James (Hardcover - March 13, 2006)
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