William S. Massey

Algebraic Topology: An Introduction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is developed from lecture notes of William S. Massey's undergraduate and graduate courses at Yale over a period of several years. Professor Massey has published many research articles on algebraic topology and related topics.

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William S. Massey Professor Massey, born in Illinois in 1920, received his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and then served for four years in the U.S. Navy during World War II. After the War he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and spent two additional years there as a post-doctoral research assistant. He then taught for ten years on the faculty of Brown University, and moved to his present position at Yale in 1960. He is the author of numerous research articles on algebraic topology and related topics. This book developed from lecture notes of courses taught to Yale undergraduate and graduate students over a period of several years.

Produktdetails

• Graduate Texts in Mathematics 56
• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 10208202, 978-0-387-90271-5
• 1977.
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 1977
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780387902715
• ISBN-10: 0387902716
• Artikelnr.: 21666414

Autorenporträt

William S. Massey (1920-2017) was an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic topology. The Blakers-Massey theorem and the Massey product were both named for him. His textbooks Singular Homology Theory and Algebraic Topology: An Introduction are also in the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Two-Dimensional Manifolds. 2: The Fundamental Group. 3: Free Groups and Free Products of Groups. 4: Seifert and Van Kampen Theorem of the Fundamental Groups of the Union of Two Spaces. 5: Covering Spaces. 6: The Fundamental Group and Covering Spaces of a Graph. 7: The Fundamental Group of Higher Dimensional Spaces. 8: Epilogue.