Topological Library - Part 1: Cobordisms And Their Applications

Download or read book Topological Library - Part 1: Cobordisms And Their Applications written by Serguei Petrovich Novikov and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of three volumes collecting the original and now classic works in topology written in the 50s-60s. The original methods and constructions from these works are properly documented for the first time in this book. No existing book covers the beautiful ensemble of methods created in topology starting from approximately 1950, that is, from Serre's celebrated “Singular homologies of fibre spaces.”This is the translation of the Russian edition published in 2005 with one entry (Milnor's lectures on the h-cobordism) omitted.