Surveys on Surgery Theory, Volume 2: Papers Dedicated to C.T.C. Wall

by Jonathan Rosenberg

Book Overview

Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. The sixtieth birthday (on December 14, 1996) of C.T.C. Wall, a leading member of the subject's founding generation, led the editors of this volume to reflect on the extraordinary accomplishments of surgery theory as well as its current enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry.

Workers in many of these areas have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691088152
• ISBN13: 9780691088150
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"