By John Willard Milnor

This dependent e-book via amazing mathematician John Milnor, offers a transparent and succinct advent to at least one of crucial topics in sleek arithmetic. starting with simple thoughts corresponding to diffeomorphisms and tender manifolds, he is going directly to research tangent areas, orientated manifolds, and vector fields. Key recommendations similar to homotopy, the index variety of a map, and the Pontryagin development are mentioned. the writer provides proofs of Sard's theorem and the Hopf theorem.

By Paraskevas Alvanos

The e-book is targeted on Riemann-Roch areas and at the computation of algebraic constructions attached to the Riemann-Roch theorem.

By Steven Buechler

Balance concept all started within the early Nineteen Sixties with the paintings of Michael Morley and matured within the 70s via Shelah's learn in model-theoretic class idea. this present day balance idea either impacts and is motivated by means of quantity conception, algebraic crew idea, Riemann surfaces and illustration concept of modules. there's little version idea this present day that doesn't contain the tools of balance concept. the purpose of this ebook is to supply the scholar with a short path from easy version thought to investigate in balance conception, to arrange a pupil for study in any of ultra-modern branches of balance conception and to offer an advent to class thought with an exposition of Morley's Categoricity Theorem.

By Jose I. Burgos Gil

This ebook includes a entire facts of the truth that Borel's regulator map is two times Beilinson's regulator map. the tactic of the evidence follows the argument sketched in Beilinson's unique paper and is determined by very comparable descriptions of the Chern-Weil morphisms and the van Est isomorphism. The ebook has varied components. the 1st one studies the fabric from algebraic topology and Lie team conception wanted for the comparability theorem. themes similar to simplicial items, Hopf algebras, attribute periods, the Weil algebra, Bott's Periodicity theorem, Lie algebra cohomology, non-stop staff cohomology and the van Est Theorem are mentioned. the second one half includes the comparability theorem and the categorical fabric wanted in its evidence, akin to particular descriptions of the Chern-Weil morphism and the van Est isomorphisms, a dialogue approximately small cosimplicial algebras, and a comparability of other definitions of Borel's regulator.

By P. Deligne, N. Katz

By Richard V. Kadison and John Ringrose

This paintings and basics of the speculation of Operator Algebras. quantity I, common thought current an creation to practical research and the preliminary basics of C* - and von Neumann algebra conception in a kind appropriate for either intermediate graduate classes and self-study. The authors supply a transparent account of the introductory parts of this crucial and technically tricky topic. significant ideas are often awarded from a number of issues of view; the account is leisurely whilst brevity may compromise readability. An strange characteristic in a textual content at this point is the level to which it really is self-contained; for instance, it introduces all of the uncomplicated practical research wanted. The emphasis is on instructing. good provided with routines, the textual content assumes purely easy degree idea and topology. The e-book offers the chance for the layout of diverse classes aimed toward various audiences.

By David Mumford, C. Musili, M. Nori, E. Previato, M. Stillman

This quantity is the 1st of 3 in a sequence surveying the speculation of theta capabilities. in response to lectures given by means of the writer on the Tata Institute of primary examine in Bombay, those volumes represent a scientific exposition of theta capabilities, starting with their old roots as analytic capabilities in a single variable (Volume I), referring to the various appealing methods they are often used to explain moduli areas (Volume II), and culminating in a methodical comparability of theta features in research, algebraic geometry, and illustration conception (Volume III).

By John Harer, Arnold Kas, Robion Kirby

By Steven C. Ferry, Andrew Ranicki, Jonathan M. Rosenberg

The Novikov Conjecture is the one most crucial unsolved challenge within the topology of high-dimensional non-simply hooked up manifolds. those volumes are the outgrowth of a convention held on the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany) in September, 1993, near to `Novikov Conjectures, Index Theorems and Rigidity'. they're meant to provide a photo of the prestige of labor at the Novikov Conjecture and similar issues from many issues of view: geometric topology, homotopy concept, algebra, geometry, research.

By Kuik G.R.