= Introduction
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Online text: https://sites.math.washington.edu/~lee/Books/ITM/c01.pdf
Author-hosted sample of Chapter 1, Introduction. The second-edition book is credited to <John M. Lee>, published by Springer in Graduate Texts in Mathematics 202, and carries copyright 2011. Its Chapter 1 definition is explicitly provisional; formal manifold hypotheses in this wiki are supported by the separately cited Toronto notes.
Cited passages: Introduction to Topological Manifolds by John M. Lee, second edition, Chapter 1, pages 1–3 on local models and pages 5–6 on topological invariants.
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