But the connection between the fundamental group and covering spaces runs much deeper than this, and in many ways they can be regarded as two viewpoints toward the the same thing.
Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html), Cambridge University Press (2002). I'm in the office at the moment, so there are only mathematics books to hand.
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Date: 2008-12-02 02:08 pm (UTC)Allen Hatcher, Algebraic Topology (http://www.math.cornell.edu/~hatcher/AT/ATpage.html), Cambridge University Press (2002). I'm in the office at the moment, so there are only mathematics books to hand.