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Comment author: witzvo 10 June 2012 05:39:50PM *  3 points [-]

These are the best references I know:

As for topological dimension, roughly, if you consider a neighborhood of a point in the space, what does space look like from there? Locally it's Euclidean if you're "on" a manifold. The rigorous definition involves charts. See also Lebesgue covering dimension.