A First Course. Great first book on algebraic topology. Introduces cohomology through singular theory.
Great first book on algebraic topology. Introduces (co)homology through singular theory.
Preface , Elementary Homotopy Theory , Introduction to Part I ,
Arrangement of Part I , Homotopy of Paths , Homotopy of Maps , Fundamental
Group of the Circle , Covering Spaces , A Lifting Criterion , Loop Spaces and
Higher Homotopy Groups , Singular Homology Theory , Introduction to Part II ,
Affine Preliminaries , Singular Theory , Chain Complexes , Homotopy
Invariance of Homology , Relation Between ? 1 and H 1 , Relative Homology ,
The Exact Homology Sequence , The Excision Theorem , Further Applications to
Spheres , Mayer-Vietoris Sequence , The Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem ,
Construction of Spaces: Spherical Complexes , Betti Numbers and Euler
Characteristic , Construction of Spaces: Cell Complexes and more Adjunction
Spaces , Orientation and Duality on Manifolds , Introduction to Part III ,
Orientation of Manifolds , Singular Cohomology , Cup and Cap Products ,
Algebraic Limits , Poincaré Duality , Alexander Duality , Lefschetz Duality ,
Products and Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem , Introduction to Part IV ,
Products , Thom Class and Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem , Intersection
numbers and cup products. , Table of Symbols
Marvin J Greenberg