Introduction to Topological Manifolds (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, No. 202) - Hardcover

John M. Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0387987592 ISBN 13: 9780387987590

Publisher: Springer, 2000

Synopsis

Manifolds play an important role in topology, geometry, complex analysis, algebra, and classical mechanics. Learning manifolds differs from most other introductory mathematics in that the subject matter is often completely unfamiliar. This introduction guides readers by explaining the roles manifolds play in diverse branches of mathematics and physics. The book begins with the basics of general topology and gently moves to manifolds, the fundamental group, and covering spaces.

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From the Author

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From the Back Cover

This book is an introduction to manifolds at the beginning graduate level. It contains the essential topological ideas that are needed for the further study of manifolds, particularly in the context of differential geometry, algebraic topology, and related fields. Its guiding philosophy is to develop these ideas rigorously but economically, with minimal prerequisites and plenty of geometric intuition.

Although this second edition has the same basic structure as the first edition, it has been extensively revised and clarified; not a single page has been left untouched.  The major changes include a new introduction to CW complexes (replacing most of the material on simplicial complexes in Chapter 5); expanded treatments of manifolds with boundary, local compactness, group actions, and proper maps; and a new section on paracompactness.

This text is designed to be used for an introductory graduate course on the geometry and topology of manifolds.  It should be accessible to any student who has completed a solid undergraduate degree in mathematics.  The author’s book Introduction to Smooth Manifolds is meant to act as a sequel to this book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0387987592
• ISBN 13: 9780387987590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388