Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2

Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 446
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781400865215
ISBN-13 : 1400865212
Rating : 4/5 (212 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2 by : Sylvain Cappell

Download or read book Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2 written by Sylvain Cappell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall, a leading member of the subject's founding generation, led the editors of this volume to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of surgery theory as well as its current enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry. Workers in many of these areas have often lamented the lack of a single source surveying surgery theory and its applications. Because no one person could write such a survey, the editors asked a variety of experts to report on the areas of current interest. This is the second of two volumes resulting from that collective effort. It will be useful to topologists, to other interested researchers, and to advanced students. The topics covered include current applications of surgery, Wall's finiteness obstruction, algebraic surgery, automorphisms and embeddings of manifolds, surgery theoretic methods for the study of group actions and stratified spaces, metrics of positive scalar curvature, and surgery in dimension four. In addition to the editors, the contributors are S. Ferry, M. Weiss, B. Williams, T. Goodwillie, J. Klein, S. Weinberger, B. Hughes, S. Stolz, R. Kirby, L. Taylor, and F. Quinn.


Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2 Related Books

Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-149), Volume 2
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Sylvain Cappell
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall,
Geometry and Topology of Manifolds
Language: en
Pages: 362
Authors: Hans U. Boden
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

GET EBOOK

This book contains expository papers that give an up-to-date account of recent developments and open problems in the geometry and topology of manifolds, along w
Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-145), Volume 1
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Sylvain Cappell
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

GET EBOOK

Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. There have been some extraordinary accomplishments in that t
Algebraic and Geometric Surgery
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Andrew Ranicki
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

This book is an introduction to surgery theory: the standard classification method for high-dimensional manifolds. It is aimed at graduate students, who have al
The Abel Prize 2008-2012
Language: en
Pages: 561
Authors: Helge Holden
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-21 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

GET EBOOK

Covering the years 2008-2012, this book profiles the life and work of recent winners of the Abel Prize: · John G. Thompson and Jacques Tits, 2008 · Mikhail Gr