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Topology from the differentiable viewpoint. Based on notes by David W. Weaver. Revised 2nd ed. (English) Zbl 1025.57002

Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ix, 64 p. (1997).
A reprint of the 1965-edition of a beautiful and elegant textbook. The chapters are as follows:
1. Smooth manifolds and smooth maps.
2. The theorem of Sard and Brown.
3. Proof of Sard’s theorem.
4. The degree modulo 2 of a mapping.
5. Oriented manifolds.
6. Vector fields and the Euler number.
7. Framed cobordism; the Pontryagin construction.
8. Exercises.

MSC:

57-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes

Citations:

Zbl 0136.20402
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