Elliptic Cohomology

by Douglas C. Ravenel and Haynes R. Miller

Edward Witten once said that Elliptic Cohomology was a piece of 21st Century Mathematics that happened to fall into the 20th Century. He also likened our understanding of it to what we know of the topography of an archipelago; the peaks are beautiful and clearly connected to each other, but the exact connections are buried, as yet invisible. This very active subject has connections to algebraic topology, theoretical physics, number theory and algebraic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052170040X
• ISBN13: 9780521700405
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"