Download or read book Intuitive Combinatorial Topology written by V.G. Boltyanskii and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topology is a relatively young and very important branch of mathematics, which studies the properties of objects that are preserved through deformations, twistings, and stretchings. This book deals with the topology of curves and surfaces as well as with the fundamental concepts of homotopy and homology, and does this in a lively and well-motivated way. This book is well suited for readers who are interested in finding out what topology is all about.