Algebraic and Geometric Surgery (Oxford Mathematical Monographs)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: December 21, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780198509240
First sentence: Chapter 1 is an introduction to the surgery method of classifying manifolds.
Description: An introduction to surgery theory: the standard classification method for high-dimensional manifolds. It is aimed at graduate students who have already had a basic topology course, and would now like to understand the topology of high-dimensional manifolds.