Topology I : general survey /
This book constitutes nothing less than an up-to-date survey of the whole field of topology (with the exception of "general (set-theoretic) topology"), or, in the words of Novikov himself, of what was termed at the end of the 19th century "Analysis Situs", and subsequently divers...
| Uniform Title: | Topologiya 1. |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Springer-Verlag,
[1996]
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| Series: | Encyclopaedia of mathematical sciences ;
v. 12. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book constitutes nothing less than an up-to-date survey of the whole field of topology (with the exception of "general (set-theoretic) topology"), or, in the words of Novikov himself, of what was termed at the end of the 19th century "Analysis Situs", and subsequently diversified into the various subfields of combinatorial, algebraic, differential, homotopic, and geometric topology. The book gives an overview of these subfields, beginning with the elements and proceeding right up to the present frontiers of research. Thus one finds here the whole range of topological concepts from fibre spaces (Chap.2), CW-complexes, homology and homotopy, through bordism theory and K-theory to the Adams-Novikov spectral sequence (Chap.3), and in Chapter 4 an exhaustive (but necessarily concentrated) survey of the theory of manifolds. An appendix sketching the recent impressive developments in the theory of knots and links and low-dimensional topology generally, brings the survey right up to the present. This work represents the flagship, as it were, in whose wake follow more detailed surveys of the various subfields, by various authors. |
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| Item Description: | Translation of original Russian, issued as volume 12 of the serial: Itogi nauki i tekhniki. Sovremennye problemy matematiki. Fundamentalʹnye napravlenii︠a︡. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783662105795 (electronic bk.) 3662105799 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0938-0396 ; |