This book has been awarded the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer 2005 prize.
The aim of this book is to give an overview of selected topics on the topology of real and complex isolated singularities, with emphasis on its relations to other branches of geometry and topology. The first chapters are mostly devoted to complex singularities and a myriad of results spread in a vast literature, which are presented here in a unified way, accessible to non-specialists. Among the topics are the fibration theorems of Milnor; the relation with 3-dimensional Lie groups; exotic spheres; spin structures...
This book has been awarded the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer 2005 prize.
The aim of this book is to give an overview of selected topics on the topolo...
Geometry is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, nearly as old as human culture.Itsbeautyhasalwaysfascinatedmathematicians, amongothers.Inwriting this book we had the purpose of sharing with readers the pleasure derived from studying geometry, as well as giving a tasteof its importance, its deep connections with other branches of mathematics and the highly diverse viewpoints that may be taken by someone entering this ?eld. We also want to propose a speci?c way to introduce concepts that have arisen from the heyday of the Greek school of geometry to the present day. We...
Geometry is one of the oldest branches of mathematics, nearly as old as human culture.Itsbeautyhasalwaysfascinatedmathematicians, amongothers.Inwritin...
