Ferry, Steven C.; Ranicki, Andrew; Rosenberg, Jonathan A history and survey of the Novikov conjecture. (English) Zbl 0954.57018 Ferry, Steven C. (ed.) et al., Novikov conjectures, index theorems and rigidity. Vol. I. Based on a conference of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach held in September 1993. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 226, 7-66 (1995). The authors give an extensive survey over the history of the Novikov-conjecture and related questions between the 1950’s and today.For the entire collection see [Zbl 0829.00027]. Cited in 2 ReviewsCited in 14 Documents MSC: 57R67 Surgery obstructions, Wall groups 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 57R20 Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology 58J20 Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. C. Ferry} et al., Lond. Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 226, 7--66 (1995; Zbl 0954.57018)