nLab Edwin Spanier

Edwin Spanier was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley, working in algebraic topology. He is probably best known as the author of the influential textbook on algebraic topology

Selected writings

On algebraic topology:

• Edwin Spanier: Algebraic topology, McGraw-Hill (1966), Springer (1982) [doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-9322-1]

Related entries

• Spanier-Whitehead category

• Spanier-Whitehead duality

• Alexander-Spanier cohomology?.

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