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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].

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
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