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Algebraic Topology
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The only good thing about this textbook is that it contains possibly every topic that an instructor could conceive of covering in an introductory course in algebraic topology. However, there are several flaws which prevented me from getting much out of this book:
1. Lack of definitions: I agree with another reviewer of this text who stat... »
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Touch and Feel: Shapes
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It just feels right: the orange is bumpy, the cushion is soft and silky, and on each page (or double-page spread) of this board book there's another texture to explore. Pages are organized by shape--circles, squares, stars, et cetera--and all the images are color photos on a white ground. Several images appear on each page, one of which has a textu... »
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Poincare's Prize: The Hundred-Year Quest to Solve One of Math's Greatest Puzzles
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In 1904, Henri Poincare published a paper in which he asked: " Is it possible that the fundamental group of a manifold be trivial and yet the manifold not be homeomorphic to a sphere ? " and added that " this question would lead us too far astray."
For the next hundred years, mathematicians from different parts of the world chased a solution , so... »
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Geometry Demystified
Well, typically most geometry self-teachning books focus on the topics typically covered in a high school geometry class, which I might add are quite simp... »
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Pre-Algebra Demystified
I bought this book (and a bunch of others) because I wanted to prepare myself for a college math assessment test and score high enough that I could jump s... »
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Introduction to Smooth Manifolds
My field lies somewhere at the intersection of algebra, geometry and physics. This is a very handy reference, meaning a few pages accessible and contains ... »
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