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A bundle is just a map viewed as an object in a particular category. It is the basic underlying structure for the more complicated notions of vector bundle and fibre bundle. In this chapter we study the category of bundles in a manner that leads us to the additional structures on a bundle described in the next two chapters. Examples are given to illustrate the concept of a bundle and the various enrichments of this concept.
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Husemoller, D. (1994). Generalities on Bundles. In: Fibre Bundles. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 20. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2261-1_2
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