Homology (Classics in Mathematics) [Paperback]

Saunders MacLane (Author)

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Publication Date: February 24, 1995 | ISBN-10: 3540586628 | ISBN-13: 978-3540586623

This text examines the field of homology.

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Biography of Saunders Mac Lane Saunders Mac Lane was born on August 4, 1909 in Connecticut. He studied at Yale University and then at the University of Chicago and at Göttingen, where he received the D.Phil. in 1934. He has tought at Harvard, Cornell and the University of Chicago. Mac Lane's initial research was in logic and in algebraic number theory (valuation theory). With Samuel Eilenberg he published fifteen papers on algebraic topology. A number of them involved the initial steps in the cohomology of groups and in other aspects of homological algebra - as well as the discovery of category theory. His famous and undergraduate textbook Survey of modern algebra, written jointly with G. Birkhoff, has remained in print for over 50 years. Mac Lane is also the author of several other highly successful books.

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• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Springer (February 24, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540586628
• ISBN-13: 978-3540586623
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches
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• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book, November 11, 2010

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Michael Cloud "Mystical Logician" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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I should admit first that I haven't finished this book. My research demands prevented me from giving it the attention it deserved. However, the third or so of it that I did read was the clearest and most insightful presentation I've yet seen of homology. I've had no particular trouble understanding homology from books I'd read before, however this book stands out in particular for demystifying a lot of things in homology, showing how seemingly abstract and sophisticated ideas are actually extremely simple ones. The advantage of course is that then attention can be focused on the parts that really are complicated without getting bogged down in what is only apparently complex. I'd highly recommend this book even if you've already gotten a command of the subject from one of the more abstract introductions.