Winding around the winding number in topology, geometry, and analysis
Prelude: Love, Hate, and ExponentialsPaths and Homotopies -- The Winding Number -- Topology of the Plane -- Integrals and the Winding Number -- Vector Fields and the Rotation Number -- The Winding Number in Functional Analysis -- Coverings and the Fundamental Group -- Coda: The Bott Periodicity Theo...
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Zusammenfassung: | Prelude: Love, Hate, and ExponentialsPaths and Homotopies -- The Winding Number -- Topology of the Plane -- Integrals and the Winding Number -- Vector Fields and the Rotation Number -- The Winding Number in Functional Analysis -- Coverings and the Fundamental Group -- Coda: The Bott Periodicity Theorem -- Appendix A: Linear Algebra -- Appendix B: Metric Spaces -- Appendix C: Extension and Approximation Theorems -- Appendix D: Measure Zero -- Appendix E: Calculus on Normed Spaces -- Appendix F: Hilbert Space -- Appendix G: Groups and Graphs. Prelude: Love, Hate, and Exponentials -- Paths and Homotopies -- The Winding Number -- Topology of the Plane -- Integrals and the Winding Number -- Vector Fields and the Rotation Number -- The Winding Number in Functional Analysis -- Coverings and the Fundamental Group -- Coda: The Bott Periodicity Theorem -- Appendix A: Linear Algebra -- Appendix B: Metric Spaces -- Appendix C: Extension and Approximation Theorems -- Appendix D: Measure Zero -- Appendix E: Calculus on Normed Spaces -- Appendix F: Hilbert Space -- Appendix G: Groups and Graphs |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Beschreibung: | xiii, 269 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme |
ISBN: | 9781470421984 978-1-4704-2198-4 1470421984 1-4704-2198-4 |