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Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:07:24 UTC No. 16441066
How do I into topology? I've done a good amount of set theory at this point and I know some linear algebra too. Any other prerequisites? Any good books/sources/pdfs?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:19:43 UTC No. 16441080
>>16441066
Get shizophrenia, voices will help you with embeddings if you'll be in trouble.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:21:40 UTC No. 16441082
Fart, then
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:53:47 UTC No. 16441187
>>16441066
No. You're good to go. Knowing some Real Analysis might help with some intuition as there you deal with a very intuitive topology (metric topology), but not strictly necessary for an introduction to topology.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:09:03 UTC No. 16441206
>>16441066
it's fucking useless, you do not want to get into topology. stick to matrix analysis and numerical methods. modern math fucking sucks dick
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:39:45 UTC No. 16441242
Topology is mental masturbation taken to its extreme. It's one of the most autistic areas of mathematics and there's literally no fucking point to studying it. There are zero real world applications.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:43:31 UTC No. 16441247
>>16441066
The only prerequisite is set theory. Topology is a fundamental structure on a set just like algebras. And you need to be very familiar and intuitive with set theory as topology axioms are entirely about unions and intersections.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:02:42 UTC No. 16441685
>>16441066
>>16441206
Like this guy said, topology sucks. You can understand it a bit better with category theory. Category theory also sucks to learn but it's not a complete dead end. It's more of a screaming hell where you just have to focus on the path in front of you and learn to drown out all the noise coming from Urs Schreiber and an army of tranny adjacent people relentlessly screeching into the night.
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Oct 2024 05:18:04 UTC No. 16443649
>>16441066
Have you tried to read a book? Try googling a copy of Munkres. I got point set down with Gamelin & Green and it set me on a good path.
Also goyslop youtube videos are actually helpful in the beginning.