The publication of this book in 1970 marked the culmination of a particularly exciting period in the history of the topology of manifolds. The world of high-dimensional manifolds had been opened up to the classification methods of algebraic topology…
Outlines the proceedings of the conference on 'Quadratic Forms and Their Applications' held at University College Dublin. This work includes survey articles and research papers ranging from applications in topology and geometry to the algebraic theo…
The Hauptvermutung is the conjecture that any two triangulations of a poly hedron are combinatorially equivalent. The conjecture was formulated at the turn of the century, and until its resolution was a central problem of topology. Initially, it was…
The Browder-Novikov-Sullivan-Wall surgery theory emerged in the 1960s as the main technique for classifying high-dimensional topological manifolds, using the algebraic L-theory of quadratic forms to relate the geometric properties of manifolds and t…
This book presents a definitive account of the applications of the algebraic L-theory to the surgery classification of topological manifolds. The central result is the identification of a manifold structure in the homotopy type of a Poincare duality…
