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TOPOLOGICAL COMMENTARY

Volume 2, #2, May 12, 1997

edited by Melvin Henriksen

commentary@mail.mathatlas.yorku.ca


I continue to invite commentary on any article in any issue of TopCom or on any topic of general interest to topologists, including news about topologists or topological activity.


EDITORIAL REMARKS

This issue of Topological Commentary introduces several new features--a book review, a poem, a children's song, and a mystery photo. We hope to continue these features while continuing old ones such as interviews of emminent topologists. Most of the contributions to this issue came as suggestions from readers.
Which books should we review? Are you willing to be a reviewer? Do you have any poems or literary contributions with a topological theme? What about vintage photos of topologists? What about other new features? Topological Commentary is written for you!
Send your suggestions or comments to commentary@mail.mathatlas.yorku.ca.
By Melvin Henriksen

 

BOOK REVIEW

Modern analysis and topology, by Norman R. Howes, Univeritext, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1995, xxviii+403 pp., ISBN 0-387-97986-7
Reviewer: John Mack, Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027. e-mail: mack@ms.uky.edu

 

TOPOLOGICAL POEMS

A Christmas Poem with a Topological Twist
By Kathleen Kustin

A Topological Song for Children
By Monty Harper

 

COLUMN

keep your hands from beans
By Scott Williams

Note: Another Column by Scott Wiiliams. He expresses his displeasure at the tendency to discourage graduate students from devoting themselves to "theoretical mathematics" in his usual unusual way.

 

QUIZ

Mystery Photo

 

PHOTOS

Photos from TOPOSYM 96, Prague