Essential Topology

While containing all the key results of basic topology, Essential Topology never allows itself to get mired in details. Instead, the focus throughout is on providing interesting examples that clarify the ideas and motivate the student, reflecting the fact that these are often the key examples behind current research.

With chapters on:

• continuity and topological spaces
• deconstructionist topology
• the Euler number
• homotopy groups including the fundamental group
• simplicial and singular homology, and
• fibre bundles

Essential Topology contains enough material for two semester-long courses, and offers a one-stop-shop for undergraduate-level topology, leaving students motivated for postgraduate study in the field, and well-prepared for it.