Böcker av J Scott (Univ Of South Alabama Carter

Gives a description of one of the most beautiful and complicated examples in low-dimensional topology. This text describes the essential topological ideas through metaphors that are experienced in everyday life: shadows, the human form, the intersections between walls, and the creases in a shirt or a pair of trousers.

These pictures illustrate standard examples in low dimensional topology. The text starts at the most basic level (the intersection of coordinate planes) and gives hands-on constructions of some beautiful examples in topology, including Poincare's example of a homology sphere, and knotted surfaces.