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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, i

This book is an exposition of the technique of surgery on simply-connected smooth manifolds. Systematic study of differentiable manifolds using these ideas was

This book is about an investigation of recent developments in the field of sympletic and contact structures on four- and three-dimensional manifolds from a topo

This book is an introduction to surgery theory: the standard classification method for high-dimensional manifolds. It is aimed at graduate students, who have al

Assuming no previous acquaintance with surgery theory and justifying all the algebraic concepts used by their relevance to topology, Dr Ranicki explains the app