Quote:
Originally Posted by Oblarg
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.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oblarg
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
