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Re: pic: How Not To Do It: Electronics Edition

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Hah, was wondering if anyone would recognize it, though to be honest it wasn't my favorite math text. It wasn't bad, but a lot of the early point set proofs which ought to have been done in rigor consisted of just pictures and handwaving (claiming "we can construct a homeomorphism" but never actually demonstrating one, etc).
That's Munkres. Even later "proofs" on covering sets and homotopy are fuzzy. Working through his "Elements of Algebraic Topology" presents similar frustrations. He works on intuition.

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I still keep it around, though, for want of any other good references for point-set topology.
And cuz it's a nice looking book
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