A selection of refereed papers presented at Conference A, Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, of the Second Gauss Symposium, held in August 1993. The papers are grouped by topic according to sections of the conference: mathematical education, history of mathematics, mathematical logic, algebra and

This book describes the construction and the properties of CW-complexes. These spaces are important because firstly they are the correct framework for homotopy theory, and secondly most spaces that arise in pure mathematics are of this type. The authors discuss the foundations and also developments, for example, the theory of finite CW-complexes, CW-complexes in relation to the theory of fibrations, and Milnor's work on spaces of the type of CW-complexes. They establish very clearly the relationship between CW-complexes and the theory of simplicial complexes, which is developed in great...