@_Hermit_Thrush_ It's a big machine for counting holes in things. Don't study it by itself, do algebraic topology.
@_Hermit_Thrush_ My experience is that the first book you pick is always terrible and useless, the second or third one is good.
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@_Hermit_Thrush_ Iunnoman I have a favorite for abstract algebra and one for algebraic geometry but algebraic topology is like -
@_Hermit_Thrush_ every prof has a bunch of old xeroxes that they want to teach out of and then they just make it up as they go anyway. -
@_Hermit_Thrush_ OTOH I learned general topology out of bourbaki and holy shit man that is the deep end -
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.