Manifold Sins and Wickedness
In the previous post I mentioned the two categories of manifolds with which we’re going to be mostly concerned: smooth manifolds, equipped with an atlas whose transition maps are \(C^\infty\), and...
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The next few sections of Chapter 1 are intended to introduce some key examples of constructions with manifolds: The high-dimensional Poincaré conjecture and the h-cobordism theorem Milnor’s exotic...
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