{"product_id":"explorations-in-topology-david-gay-9781493300884","title":"Explorations in Topology: Map Coloring, Surfaces and Knots","description":"This book gives students a rich experience with low-dimensional topology, enhances their geometrical and topological intuition, empowers them with new approaches to solving problems, and provides them with experiences that would help them make sense of a future, more formal topology course. The innovative story-line style of the text models the problems-solving process, presents the development of concepts in a natural way, and through its informality seduces the reader into engagement with the material. The end-of-chapter Investigations give the reader opportunities to work on a variety of open-ended, non-routine problems, and, through a modified Moore method, to make conjectures from which theorems emerge. The students themselves emerge from these experiences owning concepts and results. The end-of-chapter Notes provide historical background to the chapter s ideas, introduce standard terminology, and make connections with mainstream mathematics. The final chapter of projects provides opportunities for continued involvement in research beyond the topics of the book. \u003cbr\u003e* Students begin to solve substantial problems right from the start\u003cbr\u003e* Ideas unfold through the context of a storyline, and students become actively involved\u003cbr\u003e* The text models the problem-solving process, presents the development of concepts in a natural way, and helps the reader engage with the material\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Gay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1493300881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493300884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Academic Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"David Gay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48995804741887,"sku":"9781493300884","price":46.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/explorations-in-topology-david-gay-9781493300884","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}