Timeline for An "advanced beginner's" book on algebraic topology?
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| Aug 14, 2019 at 7:00 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | I think Rotman is the best introduction to the subject PERIOD. It's rigorous without being too abstract and Rotman was a master teacher. Spanier, to me, is a great example of how NOT to write a textbook-it's just insanely compressed and the author just crams too much into too few pages. | |
| Nov 6, 2016 at 17:12 | comment | added | user90041 | Spanier is a wonderful book ! I wish could double upvote this recommendation | |
| Jul 12, 2013 at 4:56 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | @Daniel: and putting in an example or two would be a nice touch! :) | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:56 | comment | added | Daniel Moskovich | @ToddTrimble If copyright were nonexistent, it might be wonderful to re-typeset Spanier. Maybe throw in some comments to highlight aspects where the emphasis has shifted with time. Spanier is worth it! | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:54 | comment | added | Daniel Moskovich | Spanier isn't for everyone; but I think it might be exactly what the OP is looking for. And everyone who I know who took it seriously seems to have gotten a tremendous amount out of it... kind of like Hatshorne or EGA in Alg. Geom. | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 3:21 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by François G. Dorais | ||
| Jul 8, 2013 at 23:01 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I read Spanier when I was a graduate student and learned a lot from it, but it is pretty old-fashioned (and has some eccentricities; for instance, the chapter on the fundamental group only discusses Seifert-van Kampen in an exercise, and then only for simplicial complexes). | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 15:54 | comment | added | Todd Trimble | From a purely typographical point of view, I find Spanier pretty brutal to read. | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:14 | comment | added | Igor Makhlin | Wow, Spanier sounds tempting! All in all, there seems to be a lot more to choose from, than I could imagine. Which has an upside and a downside =) | |
| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:11 | history | edited | Daniel Moskovich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Rotman recommendation added
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| Jul 8, 2013 at 14:04 | history | answered | Daniel Moskovich | CC BY-SA 3.0 |