Surgery on Compact Manifolds

ISBN-13: 9780821809426 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 302 str.

C. T. C. Wall

Opis

The publication of this book in 1970 marked the culmination of a particularly exciting period in the history of the topology of manifolds. The world of high-dimensional manifolds had been opened up to the classification methods of algebraic topology by Thom's work in 1952 on transversality and cobordism, the signature theorem of Hirzebruch in 1954, and by the discovery of exotic spheres by Milnor in 1956.