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Algebraic and Geometric Surgery

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Algebraic and Geometric Surgery
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN/ASIN: 0198509243
ISBN-13: 9780198509240
Number of pages: 380

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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.

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