TY - BOOK AU - Roe,John TI - Winding around: the winding number in topology, geometry, and analysis T2 - Student mathematical library SN - 9781470438463 AV - QA299.8 .R64 2015 U1 - 515 ROE-J 23 PY - 2015/// CY - India PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Mathematical analysis KW - Foundations KW - Associative law (Mathematics) KW - Symmetric functions KW - Commutative law (Mathematics) KW - Algebraic topology -- Classical topics -- Degree, winding number KW - msc KW - Manifolds and cell complexes -- Low-dimensional topology -- Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus KW - Operator theory -- General theory of linear operators -- (Semi-) Fredholm operators; index theories KW - Global analysis, analysis on manifolds -- General theory of differentiable manifolds -- Differential forms KW - Algebraic topology -- Homology and cohomology theories -- $K$-theory N1 - "Mathematics advanced study semesters."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Prelude: Love, Hate, and Exponentials -- Paths and Homotopies -- The Winding Number -- Topology of the Plane -- Integrals and the Winding Number -- Vector Fields and the Rotation Number -- The Winding Number in Functional Analysis -- Coverings and the Fundamental Group -- Coda: The Bott Periodicity Theorem -- Appendix A: Linear Algebra -- Appendix B: Metric Spaces -- Appendix C: Extension and Approximation Theorems -- Appendix D: Measure Zero -- Appendix E: Calculus on Normed Spaces -- Appendix F: Hilbert Space -- Appendix G: Groups and Graphs ER -