Algebraic and Geometric Surgery

by Andrew Ranicki

This book is 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. This text contains
entry-level accounts of the various prerequisites of both algebra and topology, including basic homotopy and homology, Poincare duality, bundles, co-bordism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198509243
• ISBN13: 9780198509240
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.5"