Timeline for Undergraduate Level Math Books
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| Jul 7, 2010 at 4:31 | comment | added | BlueRaja | No no no!! This book is awful as an undergraduate text! It's a great reference for someone who already knows the material, but the proofs skip many "simple" steps, and the author makes no attempt to explain the concepts from a intuitive point of view! Our professor assigned this book for the undergraduate course in Topology at SUNY Stony Brook, and at the time it was of absolutely no help to me whatsoever. | |
| Jan 23, 2010 at 7:09 | comment | added | Ilya Grigoriev | @Ryan. It's a matter of taste, of course. Milnor does much less material that Guillemin and Pollack, but reading it was an amazing experience for me. Guillemin and Pollack is a very good book, but I never got nearly as much from it. | |
| Nov 6, 2009 at 21:26 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | A variant that many prefer over Milnor would be Guillemin and Pollack's Differential Topology. | |
| Oct 19, 2009 at 18:50 | history | answered | Dmitri Pavlov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |