
Introduction to Topological Manifolds
by John M. Lee · first published 2006
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…it was worth it. Part of why I loved this book and subject is because it feels dry and mechanical at first, but if you work on it long enough you can see the beautiful bigger picture come together. _Introduction to Topological Manifolds_ by John M. Lee. This was another “right book at the right time” for me. The title is a bit jargony, but it is a rigorous introduction to the foundational objects of modern geometry (namely topological…
on “Ask HN: The book that did it for you in math and/or CS?” ↗…real analysis course and understand metric space topology for Euclidean spaces. If you have taken calculus, you can try and go through Baby Rudin. For topology specifically you can look into Munkres or Introduction to Topological Manifolds, J Lee. > Measure Theory T. Tao has a good book on this topic. > Differential Geometry Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by J Lee > Probability Probability Theory, Achim Klenke > Game Theory Game Theory…
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