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This is the second of a three-volume set collecting the original and now-classic works in topology written during the 1950s-1960s. 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 fiber spaces.”

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On Manifolds Homeomorphic to the 7-Sphere (J Milnor); Groups of Homotopy Spheres 1 (M A Kervaire & J Milnor); Homotopy Equivalent Smooth Manifolds (S P Novikov); Rational Pontrjagin Classes, Homeomorphism and Homotopy Type of Smooth Manifolds (S P Novikov); On Manifolds with Free Abelian Fundamental Group (S P Novikov); Stable Homeomorphisms and the Annulus Conjecture (R Kirby).

Topological Library - Part 2: Characteristic

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    A Hardback by Serguei Petrovich Novikov, Iskander A Taymanov, Vassily Olegovich Manturov

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      Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9789812836861, 978-9812836861
      ISBN10: 9812836861

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the second of a three-volume set collecting the original and now-classic works in topology written during the 1950s-1960s. 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 fiber spaces.”

      Table of Contents
      On Manifolds Homeomorphic to the 7-Sphere (J Milnor); Groups of Homotopy Spheres 1 (M A Kervaire & J Milnor); Homotopy Equivalent Smooth Manifolds (S P Novikov); Rational Pontrjagin Classes, Homeomorphism and Homotopy Type of Smooth Manifolds (S P Novikov); On Manifolds with Free Abelian Fundamental Group (S P Novikov); Stable Homeomorphisms and the Annulus Conjecture (R Kirby).

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