Topology: A Geometric Approach

• Fosters learning via guided exercises and projects, along with extensive coverage of basic material
• Flexible set of topics, allowing independent assignments for students at different levels
• Over 750 extensive and carefully developed exercises and projects
• Contains selected solutions to problems as an appendix
• A full set of solutions are available to lecturers on a companion website

Readership: Advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in pure mathematics and topology.

Terry Lawson, Professor of Mathematics, Tulane University

"Ideas are introduced in a geometric context and development of material always maintains its excitement. Long live mathematics!" - Peter Ruane, MAA Reviews

Part I: A Geometric Introduction to Topology
1: Basic point set topology
2: The classification of surfaces
3: The fundamental group and its applications
Part II: Covering Spaces, CW Complexes and Homology
4: Covering spaces
5: CW complexes
6: Homology
Selected solutions
References
Index