Surgery Theory

Surgery theory is the branch of topology developed in the second half of the 20th century  which proved to be an extremely powerful tool in the classification of high-dimensional manifolds (higher dimensional analogues of surfaces).

There is an enormous collection of surgery-related material to be found at the homepage of my PhD supervisor, Andrew Ranicki ,at Edinburgh University:

http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/


Here is a PDF of my own thesis: PhD thesis, Edinburgh 2004