Subject: Re: question and texts Date: 04 Apr 2001 09:14:32 +0100 From: N.P.Strickland@sheffield.ac.uk To: Don Davis Don, Jim Stasheff asks: > > Many years ago Dold convinced me the way to teach Alg Top is > to give the axioms right away and get the students to computing > fromthe axioms > using a progressively more difficult sequence of problem spaces > meanwhile the instructor can take his/her time showing the axioms > hold for the preferred theory > either singualr or de Rham > > anyone know of a text written that way? > I took roughly this approach in my "Homology and Manifolds" course at Sheffield. There are fairly complete notes on the web at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1nps/courses/manifolds/manifolds.ps Neil Strickland