Subject: Re: text query (for mailing list) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:30:03 -0600 From: "Lucas Wiman" Organization: Lycos Mail (http://mail.lycos.com:80) To: "Don Davis" CC: sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu >Subject: text query (for mailing list) >Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:59:28 -0800 (PST) >From: Hal Sadofsky >Reply-To: sadofsky@math.uoregon.edu > >I'm teaching a two-quarter course next year (for advanced >undergraduates) that I'd like to cover > > - some point-set topology > - an introduction to the fundamental group > - differential topology a la Milnor's little book. > >Does anyone have textbook suggestions they'd be interested in >sharing? John Lee's book "An Introduction to Topological Manifolds" fits the bill for the first two. It's obviously very oriented towards topological manifolds, but this might work well given the third topic. It assumes no background in topology at all, and so covers the "main" theorems from point-set topology, albeit a bit briskly. I think Lee's book is about $30 from Springer (GTM 202). If you're looking to save your students' money, you might try Kahn's book from Dover for about $8. Then for the last, you might try supplementing Lee's book with Milnor's little book itself. Both are quite understandable to advanced undergraduates (speaking as an undergraduate of some kind at least). -Lucas Wiman