Surgical Arithmetic
Surgical Arithmetic

Author: Lawrence Rosenberg

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1498713637

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This book is intended for the practicing surgeon. It is designed to offer practical insights into the essentials of an epidemiological, statistical and outcomes-based approach to surgical practice. Surgeons are invited to begin to develop the requisite skills that will allow them to communicate effectively with their colleagues in epidemiology and

Algebraic and Geometric Surgery
Algebraic and Geometric Surgery

Author: Andrew Ranicki

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780198509240

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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, embeddings, immersions, Whitehead torsion, Poincare complexes, spherical fibrations and quadratic forms and formations. While concentrating on the basic mechanics of surgery, this book includes many worked examples, useful drawings for illustration of the algebra and references for further reading.

Surgery on Compact Manifolds
Surgery on Compact Manifolds

Author: Charles Terence Clegg Wall

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0821809423

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The publication of this book in 1970 marked the culmination of a period in the history of the topology of manifolds. This edition, based on the original text, is supplemented by notes on subsequent developments and updated references and commentaries.

Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-145), Volume 1
Surveys on Surgery Theory (AM-145), Volume 1

Author: Sylvain Cappell

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1400865190

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Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. There have been some extraordinary accomplishments in that time, which have led to enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry. Workers in many of these areas have often lamented the lack of a single source that surveys surgery theory and its applications. Indeed, no one person could write such a survey. The sixtieth birthday of C. T. C. Wall, one of the leaders of the founding generation of surgery theory, provided an opportunity to rectify the situation and produce a comprehensive book on the subject. Experts have written state-of-the-art reports that will be of broad interest to all those interested in topology, not only graduate students and mathematicians, but mathematical physicists as well. Contributors include J. Milnor, S. Novikov, W. Browder, T. Lance, E. Brown, M. Kreck, J. Klein, M. Davis, J. Davis, I. Hambleton, L. Taylor, C. Stark, E. Pedersen, W. Mio, J. Levine, K. Orr, J. Roe, J. Milgram, and C. Thomas.