Subject: text request Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 13:44:53 -0400 From: jim stasheff To: Don Davis > Bob > ___________________________________________ > Subject: algebraic text > Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 19:49:27 -0500 (CDT) > From: Brayton Gray > > OK, how about suggestions for a text in algebraic topology. I am looking > > for a text that will not get too technical too early and will have lots > of > concrete examples. Content: homology and cohomology possibly with the > fundamental group and covering spaces for starters. > > Brayton Gray > Math Department > UIC 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? ] jim