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Differential Manifolds (Paperback)
[Buy it!] | Antoni A. Kosinski | USD 18.39
(Sat May 25 10:05:07 2024) | Abebooks | Grand Eagle Retail | ISBN10: 0486462447, ISBN13: 9780486462448, [publisher: Dover Publications Inc., New York] Softcover Paperback. The concepts of differential topology form the center of many mathematical disciplines such as differential geometry and Lie group theory. Differential Manifolds presents to advanced undergraduates and graduate students the systematic study of the topological structure of smooth manifolds. Author Antoni A. Kosinski, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Rutgers University, offers an accessible approach to both the h-cobordism theorem and the classification of differential structures on spheres.""How useful it is,"" noted the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, ""to have a single, short, well-written book on differential topology."" This volume begins with a detailed, self-contained review of the foundations of differential topology that requires only a minimal knowledge of elementary algebraic topology. Subsequent chapters explain the technique of joining manifolds along submanifolds, the handle presentation theorem, and the proof of the h-cobordism theorem based on these constructions. There follows a chapter on the Pontriagin Construction-the principal link between differential topology and homotopy theory. The final chapter introduces the method of surgery and applies it to the classification of smooth structures of spheres. The text is supplemented by numerous interesting historical notes and contains a new appendix, ""The Work of Grigory Perelman,"" by John W. Morgan, which discusses the most recent developments in differential topology. Introductory text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students presents systematic study of the topological structure of smooth manifolds, starting with elements of theory and concluding with method of surgery. 1993 edition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
[Buy it!] | Mayer, Jane; Abramson, Jill | USD 5.00
(Sat May 25 10:05:06 2024) | Abebooks | Lou Manrique - Antiquarian Bookseller | ISBN10: 0395633184, ISBN13: 9780395633182, [publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, NY, NY, U.S.A.] Hardcover First Edition 406 pp, photos. The Clarence Thomas Supreme court nomination hearing, and the weakness of Senator Joe Biden's leadership, as Senate Chair of the hearings, in his weak acknowledgment of Anita Hill's allegations. We are still living with the results.
[Port Townsend, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1994] |
