/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9043668
>To this day I keep that tradition of solving hard problems. If you were in the last /mg/ I was the one who posted a solution to a Putnam problem.
I was pretty sure that was you. It's that brainlet thing of yours, it made me connect the dots. You got a lot of shit in that thread.

>I suck at fucking algebra
But anon, algebra is the easiest field.

>>8412470
Funny, I would have suggested starting from the general settings because of the same reasons. The metric space is motivated by epsilon and delta, and those are from analysis. Although, having a metric gives concreteness and makes it easier to see how things are related to shape. If I remember correctly, Mendelson (whose book is really beginner friendly) starts with the general case, but he uses the more general (and more complicated imo) definition for neighbourhoods.

>TL;DR: Topology is pretty fucking cool, learn it.
This so much, f[math]a[/math]m!