- Hardcover: 1056 pages
- Publisher: North Holland; 1 edition (Feb 27 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0444823751
- ISBN-13: 978-0444823755
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 17.3 x 5.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,274,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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...This volume contains forty articles covering a wide range of topics including the interaction of topology with other branches of mathematics.... The articles reflect a variety of viewpoints and some deal with the lives of mathematicians who have contributed to the subject. Most mathematicians and many science historians wil find much of interest...
Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 64, No. 12
...it is not possible in the space of a review to do full justice to this magnificent volume, which combines scholarship, namely the bringing of past rends to current view in the light of later developments, with excellent exposition...
The London Mathematical Society Newsletter
....The book's editor, I.M. James, himself a distinguished topologist, has drawn together more than 40 authors for this account. ......the reader enjoys a consistently rich but varied diet....
Nature, Vol. 406
Daniel S. Silver
....despite its physical weight this collection of forty articles is not easy to put down. Anyone who spends time with this book will come away with a sense of the profound depth and epix scope of the youngest classical area of mathematics.......The reader who takes up History of Topology will find much more than space permits me to describe. That is as it should be, for topology is a rich terrain with boundaries that will continue to widen as we learn to see.
Alabama Journal of Mathematics
K. Sigmund
The editor, who himself has lived and shaped part of this history for the last fifty years, has done a superb job in choosing the right contributors and leaving them a considerable amount of liberty.
Monatshefte fur Mathematik
Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 64, No. 12
...it is not possible in the space of a review to do full justice to this magnificent volume, which combines scholarship, namely the bringing of past rends to current view in the light of later developments, with excellent exposition...
The London Mathematical Society Newsletter
....The book's editor, I.M. James, himself a distinguished topologist, has drawn together more than 40 authors for this account. ......the reader enjoys a consistently rich but varied diet....
Nature, Vol. 406
Daniel S. Silver
....despite its physical weight this collection of forty articles is not easy to put down. Anyone who spends time with this book will come away with a sense of the profound depth and epix scope of the youngest classical area of mathematics.......The reader who takes up History of Topology will find much more than space permits me to describe. That is as it should be, for topology is a rich terrain with boundaries that will continue to widen as we learn to see.
Alabama Journal of Mathematics
K. Sigmund
The editor, who himself has lived and shaped part of this history for the last fifty years, has done a superb job in choosing the right contributors and leaving them a considerable amount of liberty.
Monatshefte fur Mathematik
The London Mathematical Society Newsletter, January 2000
...it is not possible in the space of a review to do full justice to this magnificent volume...
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A lot of very good essays, Mar 2 2005
By Colin McLarty - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: History of Topology (Hardcover)
This book collects 40 essays on various themes, events, and personalities in the history of topology. I have browsed half of them and carefully read 6 or 8. Plus I have used the book as a reference, and so gained isolated facts from many of the essays.The essays assume various amounts of background, proportionate to their subjects. In generally they are very clear and if you have any knowledge at all of a topic you can read an essay on it here at least well enough to decide if you want to work harder on it.
The book concentrates more on manifolds, fixed point theorems, algebraic topology, and homological algebra, than on issues in general or point set topology. It covers Poincare, Brouwer, Weyl, and gets up to derived categories. It could not possibly cover everything in that range. For one, Lefschetz is mentioned often but he could well have deserved a whole article on himself. Or there could have been an article on the Princeton school. But incomplete we must all resign ourselves to be.
The book is a huge amount of information, very well organized and presented.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Absolutely Brilliant, Dec 25 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: History of Topology (Hardcover)
A sublime account of the history of topology from it's earliest incarnation as analysis situs to contemporary research.No home should be without one.
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