Subject: Re: 3 postings From: Jeffrey H Smith Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:34:47 -0500 (EST) To: Don Davis JFC These are standard results from the fifties and sixties. The space of smooth maps is dense in the space of continuous functions and so the every continuous family of maps can be approximated within epsilon by a smooth family of maps. From which it follows that the space of smooth maps is weak equivalent to the space of continuous maps. Jeff Smith