The Topological Classification of Stratified Spaces

by Shmuel Weinberger

Book Overview

This book provides the theory for stratified spaces, along with important examples and applications, that is analogous to the surgery theory for manifolds. In the first expository account of this field, Weinberger provides topologists with a new way of looking at the classification theory of singular spaces with his original results.

Divided into three parts, the book begins with an overview of modern high-dimensional manifold theory. Rather...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226885674
• ISBN13: 9780226885674
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"