I also remember taking a class on vector calculus from the same author... which detoured through rudimentary manifold theory and differential forms, and ended with a final week on de Rham cohomology and the Mayer-Vietoris theorem (on vector spaces, to be fair, and not modules in general.)
(And is a very fine K-theorist, too, if I say so myself.)
abeppu•12m ago
So, just from the contents ... does anything make this especially different from other discrete math books?
nxobject•55m ago
He once taught an open to all freshman knot theory elective:
https://people.reed.edu/~ormsbyk/138/
I also remember taking a class on vector calculus from the same author... which detoured through rudimentary manifold theory and differential forms, and ended with a final week on de Rham cohomology and the Mayer-Vietoris theorem (on vector spaces, to be fair, and not modules in general.)
(And is a very fine K-theorist, too, if I say so myself.)