On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On 02/24/2001 04:43:41 PM Richard Cook wrote:
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> >Whence does this terminology derive? Set or Mapping theory?
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> I learned it in high school algebra.
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and you still remember it? my memory for ancient history is not
good. assuming even that i ever heard it before, which i think is not a
valid assumption.
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> >Anyone
> >recommend a definitive text?
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> I have handy the book from a topology course I took that gives definitions:
> Munkres, James A. 1975. Topology: A first course. Prentice-Hall.
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I see that one on Amazon, but he seems to have a new book too:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201627280/
and of course, Amazon has no shortage of Algebraic Topology books, e.g.:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/038797430X/
-R
