Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint
$133.85
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
22 February 1998
Summary
This elegant book by distinguished mathematician John Milnor, provides a clear and succinct introduction to one of the most important subjects in modern mathematics. Beginning with basic concepts such as diffeomorphisms and smooth manifolds, he goes on to examine tangent spaces, oriented manifolds, and vector fields. Key concepts such as homotopy, the index number of a map, and the Pontryagin construction are discussed. The author presents proofs of Sard’s theorem and the Hopf theorem.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691048338 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691048339 |
| Author: | John Milnor |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 1998 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics |
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John Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
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About The Author
John Milnor
John Milnor is Professor of Mathematics and Co-Director of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of “Topology from the Differential Viewpoint, Singular Points of Complex Hypersurfaces, Morse Theory, Introduction to Algebraic K-Theory, Characteristic Classes” (with James Stasheff), and “Lectures on the H-Cobordism Theorem” (Princeton).
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