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